Word and Void · Book 1
Running with the Demon
- Published
- 1 January 1997
- Pages
- 420
- ISBN-13
- 9781841495446
- Type
- novel
About this book
Running with the Demon opened Word and Void in 1997 at 420 pages -- its longest volume -- introducing John Ross and Nest Freemark as a demon arrives in small-town Hopewell, Illinois, over a single fateful Fourth of July weekend.
Its place in Word and Void
Running with the Demon is book 1 in the Word and Void series. It is followed by A Knight of the Word. See the full Word and Void reading order.
Terry Brooks's Word and Void trilogy is his only Shannara-adjacent work set in the real, contemporary world, following John Ross, a Knight of the Word cursed with visions of a devastated future America if he fails in his mission, and Nest Freemark, a girl in small-town Hopewell, Illinois, whose latent magic and family secrets make her central to the hidden fight between the Word (order, magic, and the natural world) and the Void (chaos and corruption). Running with the Demon introduces both characters as a demon…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781841495446