Running With The Demon: The Word and the Void Series: Book One

Running With The Demon: The Word and the Void Series: Book One

by TerryBrooks (Author)

Synopsis

It is the beginning of the hottest July in decades, and two men have come to Hopewell, Illinois. One is not human, a dark servant of the Void, who will use the anger and frustration of the community to achieve a terrible secret goal. The other is John Ross, a Knight of the Word. While he sleeps, he lives in the hell the world will become if he fails to change its course on waking. John Ross has been given the ability to see the future. But does he have the power to change it? At stake is the soul of a fourteen-year-old girl and the lives of the people of Hopewell. And that's just the beginning. This Fourth of July, while friends and families picnic in Sinnissippi Park and fireworks explode in celebration of freedom and independence, the fate of Humanity itself will be decided ...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 512
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 03 Aug 2006

ISBN 10: 1841495441
ISBN 13: 9781841495446
Book Overview: * Dedicated UK website * Major online advertising campaign

Media Reviews
I can't even begin to count how many of Terry Brooks's books I've read (and re-read) over the years -- Patrick Rothfuss, author of THE NAME OF THE WIND
I would not be writing epic fantasy today if not for Shannara -- Peter V. Brett, author of THE PAINTED MAN
If you haven't read Terry Brooks, you haven't read fantasy -- Christopher Paolini, author of ERAGON
Terry's place is at the head of the fantasy world -- Philip Pullman
By far the best of Terry Brook s' many wonderful novels: darker, starker, classically written. * John Saul *
John Ross, the tortured, conflicted A Knight of the Word from Terry Brooks's Running with the Demon, finally gets a good night's sleep in the sequel. He buys this moment's peace at the cost of his sacred oath to be a champion of the Word, renouncing that * The story winds lazily through sleepy, wet Seattle like a tour bus, steadily building. Everything eventually converges on the homeless shelter where John works with his new sweetheart Stefanie Winslow for uber-activist Simon Lawrence, a man his dreams tel *
Paul Hughes * 'His fans should embrace it as eagerly as they have THE SWORD OF SHANNARA' *
- Publisher's Weekly * 'as readable as it is thoroughly enjoyable.' *
Author Bio
Terry Brooks was a practising attorney for many years, but now writes full time. His first novel, THE SWORD OF SHANNARA, remained on the New York Times bestseller list for 5 months. Every one of the 23 novels that have followed has been an international bestseller.