DEAD MEN’S BOOTS
Book ID/图书代码： 07980007B12748
English Summary/英文概要： Before he died, Castor’s colleague John made several calls asking for help. Castor ignored these and now feels guilty as hell. To salve his conscience, he agrees to help John’s widow with a disagreement over burial arrangements. But he’s already fighting one legal battle over the body – if not the soul – of his possessed friend, Rafi. It seems, after some digging (excuse the expression), that the final disposition of John Gittings’ body and the reappearances of a long-dead serial killer may be connected. But what connects a small firm of North London lawyers and the disused crematorium? And what’s with all the cats that keep following him? This is Neil Gaiman meets Ian Rankin – in London! Mike Carey is the acclaimed writer of LUCIFER and HELLBLAZER (now filmed as CONSTANTINE). He has also written for X-MEN and ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR among other projects. This is the third Felix Castor novel, previous titles are VICIOUS CIRCLE and THE DEVIL YOU KNOW.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 卡斯特(Felix Castor)是一個自由接案者。事實上，他真正的工作是驅魔招魂，倫敦是他的地盤。當超自然世界發生大紊亂，而混亂已經蔓延到現實社會的時候，就換這位不甚典型的法師上場了…由於卡斯特是一個異教徒，他的服務費，是根據市場的需要程度來收取，他半是享受、半是受折磨自虐的，游走在人間與地獄之間。這份奇異的工作，有著高度的危險性，必須和幽靈、魔鬼、死去的人、和其他許多超自然的事物爭鬥，如果控制不當，驅魔神探的力量，反而會被對方吸收殆盡。因為如此，他總是夢想著，這是最後一個驅魔案子了，做完就洗手退休不幹了。在這一集裡，特立獨行的卡斯特，好不容易結交了一位驅魔夥伴約翰，約翰卻慘遭橫死。約翰在臨死之前，曾經打電話向卡斯特求救，這使得卡斯特十分懊悔，認為當時他如果有回覆這位夥伴的話，約翰可能就不會死了。當律師突然出現，來處理約翰的後事時，卡斯特一度以為約翰是死於他的妻子之手，但事情要是那麼簡單就好了。
一個連環殺手已經死了四十多年，但他的惡靈又回來人間作怪，卡斯塔自己正忙得要命，還捲入了驅魔夥伴的案子。在女妖和回魂屍的幫助下，他能否發現真相？能否免遭殺害呢?（TT）
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US rights/Warner Aspect London-based exorcist Felix (Fix) Castor drops into the middle of a riddle involving a deceased colleague with strange habits, a bizarre killing and legendary gangsters.
Fellow exorcist John Gittings died by his own hand, locked in the bathroom with a shotgun. Although not anxious to wade into messy post-life situations created by Gittings’ suicide, Fix feels guilty about ignoring phone calls asking for his help on a big new job. So he agrees to help Gittings’ wife soothe his erstwhile colleague’s restless ghost. This promise from the witty, sardonic, timeworn veteran of otherworldly battles between the living and dead leads to the usual results. All hell breaks loose. In fact, all hell pretty much shows up. Fix soon crosses paths with the wife of a man accused of murder; sure that he’s innocent, she hires Fix to find the real killer. One problem: The slayer is a Chicago-based female serial killer put to death several decades earlier. When Fix starts connecting the dots, he’s sidetracked by personal relationships. His friend Rafi, possessed by a demon, might be shipped off for some medical research that’s less than friendly; his zombie buddy Nick wants him to take a hike; and Juliet, the succulent succubus-turned-exorcist, has conflicting views about one of Fix’s cases. Readers expect Fix’s adventures (Vicious Circle, 2008, etc.) to be peppered with bons mots, lots of creatures of the formerly alive kind and tsunamis of action, and this new outing won’t disappoint. Carey’s prose leaves the reader breathless, but that’s the kind of ride he usually provides. His 3-D extravaganza engages all the senses, then deftly holds the punch line until dead last.
Readers seeking a leisurely summer read won’t find it in this irresistible tale, which will have them staying up much too late for the pleasure of “just one more chapter” before dousing the lights.
About the Author/作者介绍： Mike Carey is the acclaimed writer of Lucifer and Hellblazer (filmed as CONSTANTIE). He has also written story STORY BOARDS AND SCRIPTS for the X-Men and Fantastic Four for Marvel Comics and a movie screenplay, Frost Flowers, which is to be filmed in 2006 by Blue Star Pictures. He is currently writing a comics adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere.
麥克凱瑞Mike Carey是知名漫畫《路西法》(Lucifer)和《地獄星》(Hellblazer)的作者，後者被改拍為電影《康士坦汀：驅魔神探》，他也為多部奇幻電影製作腳本和場務，例如X-Men等等。他的小說《驅魔神探卡斯特系列》（Felix Castor NOVEL），獲英國奇幻文學獎提名，是驅魔神探的正宗始祖！
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