Christopher Moore's demonically seductive storylines and
zany, addictive brand of humor have earned him comparisons
to Carl Hiaasen, Christopher Buckley, Douglas Adams, and
other comic virtuosos. He's given us lovelorn vampires,
marooned love goddesses, and addled sea beasts. Now
discover his ingenious debut novel, in which we meet one of
the most memorably mismatched pairs in the annals of
literature. the good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old ex-
seminarian and "road" scholar Travis O'Hearn. The green one
is Catch, a demon with a nasty habit of eating most of the
people he meets. Behind the fake Tudor facade of Pine cove,
California, Catch sees a four-star buffet. Travis, on the
other hand, thinks he sees a way of ridding himself of his
toothy traveling companion. The winos, Neo-pagans, and
deadbeat Lotharios of Pine Cove, meanwhile, have other
ideas. And none of them is quite prepared when all hell
breaks loose...
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