The Devil You Know - Felix Castor, Bk 1 Author:Mike Carey Felix Castor is a freelance exorcist, and London is his stamping ground. 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. While trying to back out of this ill-conceived career, Castor accepts a seemingly simp... more »le ghost-hunting case at a museum in the shadowy heart of London--just to pay the bills, you understand. But 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. That's OK: Castor knows how to deal with the dead. It's the living who piss him off...« less
This book was pretty good. It had alot of twists and turns in a multi-layered mystery. It had some intense reading all throughout and all sorts of supernatural creatures, but I was disappointed in the end. It wrapped up the mystery itself well, but left other things with vague explanations, at best. It is also written, it seemed to me, as more of a "guy story". I did enjoy reading it, but felt the ending was stupid, for lack of a better description, and I was not left wanting to read anymore of this character.