Inside Man - BookWyrm.World

English language

Published 2021 by Tordotcom Publishing.

ISBN:: 978-1-250-78614-2

(1 review)

An anonymous representative of the Devil, once a high-ranking Duke of Hell and now a committed underachiever, has spent the last forever of an eternity leading a perfectly tedious existence distracting monks from their liturgical devotions. It's interminable, but he prefers it that way, now that he's been officially designated by Downstairs as "fragile." No, he won't elaborate. All that changes when he finds himself ensnared, along with a sadistic exorcist, in a labyrinthine plot to subvert the very nature of Good and Evil. In such a circumstance, sympathy for the Devil is practically inevitable.

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David Scrimshaw reviewed Inside Man by K. J. Parker

Prosper's Demon is back

5 stars

Is it wrong that I prefer the KJ Parker books to the Tom Holt books even though it's the same author with a different name?

During this one, I clued in that Prosper's Demon, the narrator of Inside Man, is in the same world as Saevus Corvus and Orhan the engineer.

This is a fun read and it raises good questions for anyone who has ever pondered what it would mean for there to be an omniscient supreme being with a "plan" that is behind everything we experience.