The Demonologist

by Andrew Pyper

Professor David Ullman is among the world's leading authorities on demonic literature. Not that he's a believer. He sees what he teaches as a branch of the imagination and nothing more. So when offered a luxury trip to Venice to consult on a 'phenomenon', he accepts, taking his 11-year-old daughter Tess with him. Amidst the decadent splendour of the city, David makes his way to the address he's been asked to visit. What he witnesses in the tiny attic room shakes him to the core: a man restrained in a chair, clearly insane. But what David hears the man say is worse. The voice of his father, dead for 30 years, repeating the last words he ever spoke to his son. Words that have left scars - and a mystery - behind. Terrified, David is determined to leave with Tess as quickly as possible. But he can't shake the feeling that something is following him. And then, before his eyes on the roof of their hotel, Tess disappears. But before she falls into the Grand Canal's waters, she utters a plea: Find me.
At once frightening and deeply moving, Andrew Pyper's page-turning thriller explores the lengths a father will go to find his daughter, and the darkness he is prepared to confront along the way.

• ISBN10: 1409122581
• ISBN13: 9781409122586
• Publish Date: 11 April 2013 (first published 5 March 2013)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 3 September 2014
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
• Imprint: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 304
• Language: English

Reviews

[Hillary]

I had asked the librarian for a recommended scary book and she took one look at all my christian books and came back with The Demonologist. It wasn't until I was finished with it that I realized what the author had accomplished.

He took what a majority of us is. Educated but not a believer. Then on a trajectory that mimics human nature almost perfectly he takes David through proof and a reason to be willing to undergo "testing" and shows his doubts and fears along the way. The doubts and fears is what all of us have. I could see myself in David. The book was so well written that I started to have the same doubts and fears. I used to see the devil as a dumb thing that lost a millenia ago but this book depicts the devil as  smart cunning and knows how to get you to ALMOST belive what he is saying. For example, in the book when he confronts David he makes the argument that God is a ruthless being who demands total obedience but the Devil will "let" you have freedom if only we follow him. The author puts it much more eloquently than that but that is the gist of it. It was so well written that I felt I was there and the devil himself was trying to convince me that I should follow him to freedom. I am not going to tell you how the book ends because that would ruin the surprise. It is a mind bending book.

In true horror story fashion this books has some gory and unsettling themes. I was frighted at some of the things and I read this book in the daytime!

This book sucked me in and i read in a couple of hours. I literally could not put it down. It will take you on a thrilling ride through the demonic world.

Highly recommended.This review was originally posted on Adventures in Never Never Land