Travis has been on the road for decades, yet he cannot escape, as he literally carries his destiny with him: a demon he accidentally summoned in his youth. If Travis has a devil, then the demon is human, because the creature would prefer to devour everyone it sees, but its owner heroically tries to prevent it.

The odd couple arrives in Pine Cove, a sleepy California town full of swindlers, neo-pagans and eccentric citizens, all with their own metaphorical demons. But just as it is not good to mix the metaphor with methamphetamine, it is also not good to paint the proverbial demon on the wall, because it gets a bad name online. As if he had been waiting for these two figures, all hell breaks loose in the city.

Christopher Moore's first novel is a very twisty and tightly written story, full of his usual mind-blowing characters and hair-raising ideas. The reader holds the volume in his hands in a new translation.