The Devil You Know: A Felix Castor Novel, vol 1

Product Description Felix Castor is a freelance exorcist, and London is his stamping ground. At a time when the supernatural world is in upheaval and spilling over into the mundane reality of the living, his skills have never been more in demand. A good exorcist can charge what he likes - and enjoy a hell of a life-style - but there's a risk: sooner or later he's going to take on a spirit that's too strong for him. After a year spent in 'retirement' Castor is reluctantly drawn back to the life he rejected and accepts a seemingly simple exorcism case - just to pay the bills, you understand. Trouble is, the more he discovers about the ghost haunting the archive, the more things don't add up. What should have been a perfectly straightforward exorcism is rapidly turning into the Who Can Kill Castor First Show, with demons, were-beings and ghosts all keen to claim the big prize. But that's OK; Castor knows how to deal with the dead. It's the living who piss him off . . . Review Sleazy and down-at-heel and quintessentially London, Mike Carey's Felix Castor steps effortlessly into the growing field of supernatural noir and brings with him a blast of fresh, British air. Think Shoestring meets Constantine, with backing vocals from the shades of Leslie Charteris and Anais Nin. Carey's plotting is tight and laconic, and laced with shivery, understated horrors from both the human world and beyond. It grabs you from the first out-of-nowhere nasty surprise, and rarely lets go thereafter. You'll be up all night finishing this one. ― Richard Morgan, bestselling author of ALTERED CARBON Imagine an unholy cross between Buffy, Jonathan Creek and hardboiled noir, set it in the sleazier bits of London, and you've got Mike Carey's The Devil You Know, a supernatural crime novel featuring Felix Castor, reluctant magician and part-time exorcist ― THE GUARDIAN Entertaining, well-paced, intelligently plotted and full of memorable characters ― THE TIMES Witty, deadpan and shudderingly noir . . . With a plot nailed down tighter than a coffin lid, Carey drives this thriller like Chandler at the wheel of a runaway hearse, combining the mundane with the monstrous to depict a capital city where demons, ghou ― DAILY EXPRESS Book Description The start of a series of supernatural thrillers with a characteristic British flavour, from the bestselling author of THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS. From the Publisher Mike Carey gives us a vision of our own world through a glass darkly, filled with people and places we have been familiar with all of our lives. He also treats us to a hugely enjoyable look at what that world would be like if ghosts, ghouls, vampires and werewolves - and all the other things that go bump in the night - were real. And he does it with a healthy dash of trademark British black humour and cynicism. We at Orbit are confident that his debut novel, The Devil You Know, is the beginning of something special. About the Author M. R. Carey has been making up stories for most of his life. His novel The Girl With All the Gifts was a word-of-mouth bestseller and is now a major motion picture based on his own screenplay. Under the name Mike Carey he has written for both DC and Marvel, including critically acclaimed runs on X-Men and Fantastic Four, Marvel's flagship superhero titles. His creator-owned books regularly appear in the New York Times graphic fiction bestseller list. He also has several previous novels, two radio plays and a number of TV and movie screenplays to his credit. Follow M. R. Carey on Twitter as @MichaelCarey191 and on Facebook at Facebook.com/MRCareyAuthor. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Normally I wear a Tsarist army greatcoat – the kind that sometimes gets called a paletot – with pockets sewn in for my tin whistle, my notebook, a dagger and a chalice. Today I gone for a green tuxedo with a fake wilting flower in the buttonhole, pink patent-leather shoes and a painted-on moustache in