All Names Have Been Changed

Пять тысяч лет назад в долине Тигра и Евфрата процветал великий Шумер. Держава, полная тайн, загадок и древнего волшебства. В благословенном Вавилоне восседал мудрый император, к небесам вздымалась башня магической Гильдии, а на окраине города Ура находился дворец Шахшанор. Пять тысяч лет назад в этом дворце родился младенец по имени Креол – тот самый Креол, который спустя много лет станет всесильным архимагом.

Пока что он еще юн, у него даже не растет борода. Но приключений в его жизни уже достаточно – и о некоторых из них мы расскажем на страницах этой книги.

There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile.

He made a crooked deal and he blew a crooked pile.

He dug a crooked hole.

And he sank the crooked isle.

And they all went to hell in a stew of crooked bile.

The Devil I Know is a thrilling novel of greed and hubris, set against the backdrop of a brewing international debt crisis. Told by Tristram, in the form of a mysterious testimony, it recounts his return home after a self-imposed exile only to find himself trapped as a middle man played on both sides — by a grotesque builder he's known since childhood on the one hand, and a shadowy businessman he's never met on the other. Caught between them, as an overblown property development begins in his home town of Howth, it follows Tristram's dawning realisation that all is not well.

From a writer unafraid to take risks, The Devil I Know is a bold, brilliant and disturbing piece of storytelling.