Nice little book. I pretty much read it in one go as I wanted to see where the story would go. I will track down the sequels so I can read them, but if I can get them used, I will. The main character reads like he has Aspergers or high functioning autism, but some of that changes as the book progresses and the character grows. I'm concerned about that, but not enough to set the book down. I'll need to see what happens in the next book. Highly, highly blasphemous (for better or worse) this is a book of great ideas and not so great execution. Essentially a guy accidently summons a demon, puts hell on strike and makes a deal whereby he gets to become a super hero powered by a demon sidekick. It's an intriguing premise and Hughes fleshes it out with a lot of interesting concepts.Unfortunately his characters don't fare so well. For the most part the male characters, from the hard boiled police lieutenant to the reborn (and reborn again) tv evangelist are at least interesting clichés, but the female characters (all 3 of them!) are purely one dimensional cardboard cut-outs - the hypocritically self righteous Letitia, the self-centeredly self righteous Poppy and the 'lovably' self righteous Melda.I did enjoy the book (It's worth noting that I always sound much more negative when discussing books/films/couches than I really feel) and it's a promising start to a series, just hopefully the characters will be able carry their own weight as the series progresses.
What do You think about The Damned Busters (2000)?
