With the help of the succubus Juliet and paranoid zombie data-fence Nicky Heath, Castor just might have a chance of fitting the pieces together before someone drops him down an elevator shaft or rips his throat out.Author of The Girl With All the Gifts Mike Carey presents the second book in his hip supernatural thriller series featuring freelance exorcist Felix Castor.įelix Castor has reluctantly returned to exorcism after a successful case convinces him that he really can do some good with his abilities - "good," of course, being a relative term when dealing with the undead. He’s also fighting a legal battle over the body - if not the soul - of his possessed friend, Rafi, and can’t shake the feeling that his three problems might be related. But life is rarely that simple for Felix Castor.Ī brutal murder in the heart of London bears all the hallmarks of a long-dead American serial killer, and it takes more good sense than Castor possesses not to get involved. You might think that helping a friend’s widow to stop a lawyer from stealing her husband’s corpse would be the strangest thing on your To Do list. When satanists, stolen spirits, sacrifice farms, and haunted churches all appear on the same police report, the name Felix Castor can’t be too far behind. What he gets is a seemingly insignificant “missing ghost” case that inexorably drags him and his loved ones into the middle of a horrific plot to raise one of hell’s fiercest demons. His friend Rafi is still possessed, the succubus Ajulutsikael (Juliet to her friends) still technically has a contract on him, and he’s still dirt poor.ĭoing some consulting for the local cops helps pay the bills, but Castor needs a big private job to really fill the hole in his bank account. It’s the living who piss him off.įelix Castor has reluctantly returned to exorcism after a successful case convinces him that he really can do some good with his abilities - “good,” of course, being a relative term when dealing with the undead. When Castor accepts a seemingly simple ghost-hunting case at a museum in the shadowy heart of London, what should have been a perfectly straightforward exorcism is rapidly turning into the Who Can Kill Castor First Show, with demons and ghosts all keen to claim the big prize.īut that’s business as usual: Castor knows how to deal with the dead. It may seem like a good ghostbuster can charge what he likes and enjoy a hell of a lifestyle, but there’s a risk: sooner or later he’s going to take on a spirit that’s too strong for him. 5 books in the series so far, and some of us have been waiting for the 6th book as eagerly as we await “The Winds of Winter” (okay, maybe not that eagerly, but still) The reissue of these books in Trade Paperback makes me think (hope) that the 6th book might be coming in my lifetime, lol.įelix Castor is a freelance exorcist, and London is his stomping ground. These books are eminently readable, fun, and thought provoking. Some come back as ghosts while others possess their own dead bodies (zombies, but not the boring kind) or take over animal bodies (as a loup-garou, best name for “werewolf type thing” ever) It’s our world, set in our time, but sometime within the last twenty or thirty years, the dead began to wake up. A modern (fantasy/alternate history) noir, starring a foul mouthed, dry witted,and wonderfully flawed protagonist, Felix is a PI, a ghost hunter/exorcist who never really thinks about where the ghosts go afterwards until now…. It is his Felix Castor novels, which really float my boat, and they deserve to be more well known. Lots of people also know him from his “ The Hungry Plague Series” (Girl With All the Gifts, Boy on the Bridge) Bonafides established, ‘nuff said. Acclaimed runs with X-Men and Hellblazer (you can see shades of Constantine in Felix Castor) and he wrote the entirety of Lucifer, the superlative spinoff from Neil Gaiman's Sandman. Mike Carey is something special, it is known.
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