a Devil in the Details

✍ Scribed by Stewart, K a - Jesse James

• Book ID: 106933349
• Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 240 KB
• Series: Jesse James
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781101188521

✦ Synopsis

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. This crackling series launch hits the trifecta of strong story, characters, and prose. Jesse James Dawson is a retail clerk, a samurai, a redneck brawler, a good husband and father, and a Champion: a demon slayer who fights to free repentant souls from hastily entered contracts. What he isn't is good with magic, though his wife, Mira, can back him up with some spell casting. While attempting to retrieve the soul of a World Series– winning pitcher, Jesse is distracted by two other Champions disappearing, a stalker trying to run him off the road, and an annoying pest of a demon determined to claim him. Stewart's wisecracking hero is smart and thoroughly 3-D. The tight terse style honors but doesn't copy Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden books, and urban fantasy fans looking for something new will happily devour Stewart's debut.
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Review

''A DEVIL IN THE DETAILS has a clever conceit, with a surprisingly strong moral centre. Lots of fun, deftly witty, and one of the most appealing central characters of recent years.'' --New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green
of the most appealing central characters of recent years.'' --New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green

''Equal parts heroic, dark and funny...a welcome addition to the urban fantasy genre, pickup truck included.'' --Anton Strout, author of DEAD MATTER

''If you want your life saved you call the cops. If you want your soul saved, you call Jesse James Dawson...Humor, action, and a one-way trip straight to Hell, this book delivers it all.'' --National Bestselling Author Rob Thurman