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Prosper's Demon
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An exorcist's methods aren't delicate but they're undeniably effective: he'll get the demon out - he just doesn't particularly care what happens to the person. His target, Prosper of Schanz, is a man of science, determined to raise the world's first philosopher-king, reared according to the purest principles.
Too bad he's possessed.
In this pitch-dark, witty fantasy, Parker deftly creates a world with vivid, unbending rules, seething with demons, broken faith, and bad men. Prosper's Demon cheerfully and acidly excavates some of Western literature's deepest tropes - from Plato's philosopher-king to Marlowe and Goethe on Doctor Faustus and Mephistopheles - with infernal flair.
Too bad he's possessed.
In this pitch-dark, witty fantasy, Parker deftly creates a world with vivid, unbending rules, seething with demons, broken faith, and bad men. Prosper's Demon cheerfully and acidly excavates some of Western literature's deepest tropes - from Plato's philosopher-king to Marlowe and Goethe on Doctor Faustus and Mephistopheles - with infernal flair.