Running With the Demon (Word and the Void) - Hardcover

Brooks, Terry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345379624 ISBN 13: 9780345379627

Publisher: Orbit, 2000

Synopsis

Hopewell, Illinois, the site of a bitter steel strike, becomes the focal point in the epic struggle between good and evil as two men--one a demon servant of the Void, who seeks to draw on the community's anger and frustration to achieve a secret end, and the other, John Ross, a Knight of the Word--hold the fate of the world in their hands. 250,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author

A writer since high school, Terry Brooks published his first novel, The Sword of Shannara, in 1977. It became the first work of fiction ever to appear on the New York Times Trade Paperback Bestseller List, where it remained for more than five months. He has published thirteen consecutive bestselling novels since.

The author was a practicing attorney for many years, but now writes full-time. He lives with his wife, Judine, in the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii.

From the Inside Flap

ago, Terry Brooks turned fantasy fiction on its head with The Sword of Shannara, the first fantasy novel to make the mainstream bestseller lists, and the first in an unbroken string of thirteen bestselling books. Now, in Running with the Demon, Brooks does nothing less than revitalize fantasy fiction again, inventing the complex and powerful new mythos of the Word and the Void, good versus evil still, but played out in the theater-in-the-round of the "real world" of our present.

On the hottest Fourth of July weekend in decades, two men have come to Hopewell, Illinois, site of a lengthy, bitter steel strike. One is a demon, dark servant of the Void, who will use the anger and frustration of the community to attain a terrible secret goal. The other is John Ross, a Knight of the Word, a man who, while he sleeps, lives in the hell the world will become if he fails to change its course on waking. Ross has been given the ability to see the future. But does he have the power to chang

Edition details

• Publisher: Orbit
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345379624
• ISBN 13: 9780345379627
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 504