Preston Clearwater has been a criminal since stealing two chain saws and 1600 pairs of aviator sunglasses from the Army during the Second World War. Back on the road in post-war North Carolina , a member of a car-theft ring, he picks up hitch-hiking Henry Dampier, an innocent nineteen-year-old Bible
The devil's bible: a novel
β Scribed by Dana Chamblee Carpenter
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 246 KB
- Edition
- First Pegasus books edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1681773899
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
She's spent the last seven hundred years hiding in plain sight. But Mouse's past is about to catch up with her.
The Devil's Bible. Once considered an eighth wonder of the world, the ancient book is shrouded in mystery. No one knows who wrote it or where it was written. Even dry-boned scholars whisper about the secrets hidden in the book: How it calls to the power-hungry. How it drives people mad. How it was written in the shadows by the hand of the devil himself.
But no one knows the truth--no one except Mouse.
She's been running from the truth at the heart of the Devil's Bible for so long that no one even knows her name anymore. She calls herself Emma Nicholas--a normal name for a normal college professor living a normal life. But all of it is a lie, and, when forces emerge that threaten to expose her, Mouse has no choice but to take flight once more.
Desperate and on the run, Mouse unexpectedly finds hope in a stranger's...
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