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Running With The Demon, 9781841495446
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Hopewell’s fate hangs in the balance: can one man change tomorrow?

Running With The Demon

the word and the void series: book one

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    512 pages

  • Release Date

    31 December 1999

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Summary

Running With The Demon: A Knight of the Word’s Desperate Race

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 abil…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781841495446
ISBN-10:1841495441
Series:Word and the Void
Author:Terry Brooks
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Orbit
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:512
Edition:New edition
Release Date:31 December 1999
Weight:400g
Dimensions:196mm x 129mm x 33mm
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  • Publisher’s Weekly

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 J

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.’

About The Author

Terry Brooks

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.

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