The Devil's Day

The Devil's Day
ISBN-10
0671698605
ISBN-13
9780671698607
Category
Fiction
Pages
312
Language
English
Published
1990
Publisher
Baen Books
Author
James Blish

Description

A bored weapons entrepreneur enlists the greatest black magician of all time to perform a magical feat of stupendous proportions, and only one man--a simple Italian monk--feels the imminent danger. But the holy man must stand and watch helplessly as the magician unleashes the most powerful demons of Hell onto an unsuspecting world.

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