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Johannes Cabal, necromancer of some little infamy, returns in this riotously clever and terrifically twisted tale of murder and international intrigue. In this genre-twisting novel, infamous necromancer Johannes Cabal, after beating the Devil and being reunited with his soul, leads us on... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Herr Cabal: Add a description of this character.
- Herr Meissner
- Marechal
- Hortense
- Johannes Cabal
- Leonie Barrow
- Gerhard Meissner: the identity Cabal steals
- Herr Cacon
- Count Marechal
- Captain Schten
- Lady Ninuka
- Herr Zoruk
- Antrobus
- Frau Roborovski
- Signor Bruno
- Karstetz
- Konstantin
- Herr Roborovsld
- Frau Roborovsld
- Lizbet Roborovski
- Herr Roborovski
- Linus Roborovski
- M. Degarre
- Moretti
- Emperor Antrobus
- Herr Harlmann
- Lieutenant Karstetz
- Gabriel Zoruk
- Hartmann
- Rovetta
- Prezof
- Viale Ogrilla
- Alexei Cacon
Quotes edit
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“The only more immediate alternative that I can think of is a Tantric ritual involving necrophiliac sodomy and, frankly, I don't think my back is up to it.”
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“Cabal smiled quietly at suchlike- a smile he had spent painstaking minutes in front of the mirror bringing to a high finish, a smile that said, I will indulge your attention for a few seconds, but then you should really look away, with a pitch-perfect subtext, barely discernible at a conscious level that went, Or I shall run an open razor across your eyeball. Everybody looked away.”
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“Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.” “But guns make it so much easier. Shall we go?”
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There is possibly no insult so calculated to sting the English as the suggestion that they may at any time be considered foreign, as this flies in the face of the obvious truth that the whole of Creation actually belongs to the English, and they are just allowing everybody else to camp on bits of it from a national sense of noblesse oblige.
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“She’s a bike. A tart. A slut. She’ll be buried in a Y-shaped coffin. A baggage. A hussy. She’s the good time that was had by all. A wanton floozy.” She looked closely at him, but he still seemed to be stuck on cricket. “A nymphomaniac.”
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They served to remind Cabal—should a reminder ever be necessary—why his social skills were so poor: people were loathsome and not worth the practise.
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Cabal smiled with the benevolence of somebody watching an unlovable toddler walk under a table and bang his head painfully.
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‘If at first you don’t succeed, then repeat your failure until nobody’s left alive to comment.’”
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He would have been a mite happier still if his Webley revolver had been snuggling safely in his bag, but the day was otherwise as good as any day without a large-calibre handgun can reasonably be.
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Pure brute logic overruled any silly murder shenanigans by pointing out the suicide note and the locked room, and then proceeded to wave Ockham’s razor around in a threatening manner.
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Sighing heavily, for he disliked violence generally and murder in particular, Cabal set off to commit violent murder.
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He’d asked for his to be cooked medium rare, which in Mirkarvian cuisine meant it had been shown a picture of an oven for a moment and then served. A very brief moment, mind.
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First Sentence edit
The condemned cell stank of cats.
Table of Contents edit
1. In Which death awaits and a plot is hatched.
2. In Which a speech is delivered and there is a falling out.
3. In Which names are called and a fugitive takes flight.
4. In Which Cabal acts and the future remains dark.
5. In Which dinner is served and acquaintances are made.
6. In Which deaths occur and curiosities are noted.
7. In Which Cabal is in terrible danger and then has breakfast.
8. In Which a suspect is interrogated and and interrogator is suspicious.
9. In Which Cabal discovers and future of bar snacks and trifles with the nobility.
10. In Which the light of truth is encircled by darkness.
11. In Which Cabal behaves despicably and inquisitively
12. In Which the gloves come off.
13. In Which Cabal practices necromancy and ways are parted.
14. In Which villainy is revealed and lives are risked.
15. In Which Cabal sets the scene.
Interludes:
How Cabal defeated Count Marechal in a duel.
How Cabal came to change his mind.
16. In Which much is explained and derring is done.
17. In Which there is danger, disaster, and death.
An Afterword of Sorts
The Tomb of Umtak Ktharl
Series & Lists edit
This is book 2 of 3 in Johannes Cabal. (standard series)
Preceded by Johannes Cabal the Necromancer, and followed by The Fear Institute.
This book is in NPR Summer Books 2010. (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jonathan L. Howard (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-385-52809-2
Page Count: 289
Publisher: Doubleday
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-385-52809-2
Page Count: 289
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.92
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