The Devil You Know, K. J. Parker
The Devil You Know, K. J. Parker
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The Devil You Know

Author: K. J. Parker

Narrator: Will Damron

Unabridged: 3 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2016

Synopsis

The greatest philosopher of all time is offering to sell his soul to the Devil. All he wants is twenty more years to complete his life’s work. After that, he really doesn’t care.

But the assistant demon assigned to the case has his suspicions, because the philosopher is Saloninus–the greatest philosopher, yes, but also the greatest liar, trickster and cheat the world has yet known; the sort of man even the Father of Lies can’t trust.

He’s almost certainly up to something; but what?

About K. J. Parker

Having worked in journalism, numismatics and the law, K. J. Parker now writes for a precarious living. He is the author of Devices and Desires, Evil for Evil, The Devil You Know, and other novels, and has won the World Fantasy Award twice. Parker also writes under the name Tom Holt.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Elle on April 11, 2020

I don't know how to put this novella into words. Really, I don't. Maybe the best one is “mindblowing,” because I legitimately feel like KJ Parker just took my mind and threw it into the sun. Or maybe into a blender. How was this only 120 pages. How was this somehow the cleverest thing I've read in m......more

Goodreads review by Gavin on December 11, 2017

This novella is the sequel to KJ Parker's earlier novella Blue and Gold and again features Saloninus, the great philosopher and alchemist, and possibly the most devious man who ever lived. Into his twilight years and fearing he is not long for life Saloninus does the unthinkable. He sells his soul t......more

Goodreads review by Althea on March 16, 2017

One of my Hugo Award nominees, novella, 2016. ____ In the grand Faustian tradition... 'The Devil You Know' takes a familiar tale and gives it a genuinely new twist... and a wonderfully wry dose of humor. A brilliant and famed philosopher, entering his twilight years, decides to sell his soul to the d......more

Goodreads review by Scott on March 15, 2017

Good read, inventive idea. A bit dry in patches and I would have liked a more dramatic ending.......more

Goodreads review by Allen on May 16, 2022

Part of it feels more like his 'bureaucratic demon' books like Prosper, Inside Man, and Long Game, but what makes this book shine pure and simple is Saturninus. And though I prefer Basso, I'm not sure there's a more brilliant character in fiction.......more

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