About the Book
Twenty years ago, Terry Brooks turned fantasy fiction on its head withThe Sword of Shannara, the first fantasy novel to make the mainstream
bestseller lists, and the first in an unbroken string of thirteen
bestselling books. Now, in Running with the Demon, Brooks does nothing
less than revitalize fantasy fiction again, inventing the complex and
powerful new mythos of the Word and the Void, good versus evil still,
but played out in the theater-in-the-round of the "real world" of our
present.
On the hottest Fourth of July weekend in decades, two
men have come to Hopewell, Illinois, site of a lengthy, bitter steel
strike. One is a demon, dark servant of the Void, who will use the
anger and frustration of the community to attain a terrible secret
goal. The other is John Ross, a Knight of the Word, a man who, while he
sleeps, lives in the hell the world will become if he fails to change
its course on waking. Ross has been given the ability to see the
future. But does he have the power to change it?
At stake is the
soul of a fourteen-year-old girl mysteriously linked to both men. And
the lives of the people of Hopewell. And the future of the country.
This Fourth of July, while friends and families picnic in Sinnissippi
Park and fireworks explode in celebration of freedom and independence,
the fate of Humanity will be decided...
A novel that weaves
together family drama, fading innocence, cataclysm, and enlightenment,Running with the Demon will forever change the way you think about the
fantasy novel. As believable as it is imaginative, as wondrous as it is
frightening, it is a rich, exquisitely-written tale to be savored long
after the last page is turned.
