Book description
Author of The Girl With All the Gifts Mike Carey presents the first book in his hip supernatural thriller series featuring freelance exorcist Felix Castor.
Felix Castor is a freelance exorcist, and London is his stomping ground. It may seem like a good ghostbuster can charge what he likes and…
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1 author picked The Devil You Know as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
From a book series that everyone has heard of to a book series even I forgot existed! Seriously, it was difficult to find these books again, but as a teenager, I devoured Mike Carey’s urban fantasy series about freelance exorcist Felix Castor.
They’re so irreverent, so bolshy, and absolutely not what I expected when I was looking for a new fantasy. These books are actually cool! The biggest problem Felix has is paying his rent until, of course, whatever case he’s given upends his life and drags him into worlds of cultish magic, thuggish villains, and difficult decisions.
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