*****50 MILLION TERRY BROOKS COPIES SOLD AROUND THE WORLD*****

**THE SHANNARA CHRONICLES IS NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES**

***'Terry's place is at the head of the fantasy world'* Philip Pullman**

It is the beginning of the hottest July in decades, and two men have come to Hopewell, Illinois. One is not human, a dark servant of the Void, who will use the anger and frustration of the community to achieve a terrible secret goal. The other is John Ross, a Knight of the Word. While he sleeps, he lives in the hell the world will become if he fails to change its course on waking. John Ross has been given the ability to see the future. But does he have the power to change it?

At stake is the soul of a fourteen-year-old girl and the lives of the people of Hopewell. And that's just the beginning. This Fourth of July, while friends and families picnic in Sinnissippi Park and fireworks explode in celebration of freedom and independence, the fate of Humanity itself will be decided . . .

Praise for Terry Brooks:

**'A master of the craft . . . required reading'** Brent Weeks

**'I can't even begin to count how many of Terry Brooks's books I've read (and re-read) over the years'** Patrick Rothfuss, author of *The Name of the Wind*

**'I would not be writing epic fantasy today if not for Shannara' **Peter V. Brett, author of *The Painted Man*

**'If you haven't read Terry Brooks, you haven't read fantasy' **Christopher Paolini, author of *Eragon*

*The Word and the Void:*

**RUNNING WITH THE DEMON**
**A KNIGHT OF THE WORD**
**ANGEL FIRE EAST**

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### Amazon.com Review

Terry Brooks's *Running with the Demon* is billed as "A Novel of Good and Evil," but he could've called it "A Novel of Here and Now." The fantasy master behind the Shannara series switches his focus from neo-Tolkien jungles to the woebegone steel town of Hopewell, Illinois. Though Illinois teenager Nest Freemark (where does he get these names?) looks like your average kid, she spends her free time in the woods asking her 6-inch pal Pick for advice in dodging the Demon and his creepy Feeders, spirits who gobble the souls of humans. Nest is also being tailed by John Ross, a shining Knight of the Word who wants to keep her from the Feeders' jaws.

Meanwhile, in the real world that dominates the novel, Nest Freemark is being stalked by a handsome, evil classmate who she has rejected, and a pack of surly, insurgent striking steelworkers plot a bombing at the company's Fourth of July picnic. The boy and the bombers are unaware that they're being subconsciously manipulated by the Demon. The book's matter-of-fact take on the uncanny is a bit like *The X-Files*. (And if you want to compare the two, check out Ted Edwards's *X-Files Confidential: The Unauthorized X-Philes Compendium*.)

Brooks's plot has more strands than a plate of pasta, yet his mind is logical to a fault--he used to be a lawyer. There's something for everyone: gory monster attacks, a dread family secret, magical mind-game duels, even a (rather flat) teen-romance subplot. The setting has real grit and the countdown to the Independence Day bombing peps up the tale. Brooks sometimes prosaically explains things a better literary stylist would dramatize, and his minatory visions of environmental apocalypse are more fun than the obvious, nagging, don't-be-a-litterbug message they exist to convey. Brooks will never be as deep as Tolkien, and many readers will find him less awesome as their adolescence recedes. Still, he's the genuine article, and with this book, he raises the stakes he's playing for.

### From Library Journal

Legendary sf author Brooks here weaves a tale about an apocalyptic showdown in a small Illinois town between humans and the amber-eyed trolls from another realm that only a girl named Nest can see.
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