Practical Demonkeeping

In Christopher Moore's ingenious debut novel we meet one of the most memorably mismatched pairs in the annals of literature. The good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old ex-seminarian and roads scholar Travis O'Hearn. The green one is Catch a demon with a nasty habit of eating most of the people he meets. Behind the fake Tudor facade of Pine Cove California Catch sees a four-star buffet. Travis on the other hand thinks he sees a way of ridding himself of his toothy traveling companion. The winos neo-pagans and deadbeat Lotharios of Pine Cove meanwhile have other ideas. And none of them is quite prepared when all hell breaks loose.