The White Devil

The gripping adventure for fans of The Man in the High Castle

By: Paul Hoffman

Narrated by: Sean Barrett

Brought to you by Penguin.

Thomas Cale has been running from his enemies. Raised and trained in an underground programme - the Sanctuary - he was sent to destroy God's greatest mistake, mankind itself.

Cale is a paradox: arrogant and innocent, generous and pitiless. Feared and revered by those that created him, he has already used his terrifying talent for violence and destruction to bring down the most powerful civilisation in the world.

But Thomas Cale has been caught. He's been given a choice. Bring down the world's best hope for order, for honesty and for progress, or condemn his soul to hell.

The fate of humankind rests on Cale's decision.

© Paul Hoffman 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Critic reviews

Praise for Paul Hoffman

Exhilaratingly engaging writing, imbued with zest and intelligence

Brooding and magnificent. Hoffman has created a terrifying world and fitted it with strange and complex characters (Eoin Colfer)

Gripped me from the first chapter and then dropped me days later, dazed and grinning to myself (Conn Iggulden)

A riveting, powerful tale, with irresistible characters, humor and a brilliantly imagined world

This is fiction on a grand and ambitious scale. Inspires sensations of terror, nausea, bemusement and exhilaration

Jus Wonderful!

To be honest I wasnt sure the The Beating of His Wings needed a follow up. Sure it wasnt the best ending ever written, but I felt enough closure to be satisfied. So going into this one made me wonder if it would taint the previous books for me. I am pleased to say that it delived a wonderful story. Some of the choices made to the story are disappointing, but I enjoyed every minute of listening time. I was enthralled with the story begging to end, and would recommend to anyone.

mad man or genius

Yes the start of the book sounds like the ravings of a mad man, and the story is hard to follow. yet it is something special in Hoffman that you have to understand. The line is quite blurred in this book between mad man, and genius. yet a great read if you stick with it.
the narrator is not the same in the first three books. no-one like that change.
The narrator annunciation of words is very strange. With a really bad Texas accent.
With huge swings in pitch, and volume.
over all I still give it a hard 4 stars!

Terrible

I stopped after a couple of hours, nothing made sense. I get that the story is set in an alternate reality, but it was so disjointed and all over the place that I never knew what was going on. Total waste of a credit.