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Rent The Devil and Miss Prym of Temptation
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Narrator: Linda Emond
Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback
Publisher: Harperaudio
Published: Jul 2006
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $29.95
Discs: 4
Synopsis
A stranger arrives in the seemingly idyllic mountain town of Viscos and offers the villagers a devil's bargain: kill an innocent person in the next three days and the man will give the village a wealth in gold. The man, it turns out, is a former gun-runner whose family was murdered by the same guns he sold, and ever since, he has been obsessed with testing the limits of human decency. He chooses the local bartender, Chantal Prym, to witness the gold treasure herself, and Chantal finds herself caught in the middle of this diabolical offer. Worse, the town, led by a greedy priest, decides to accept the deal, and Miss Prym is at the top of the list of sacrificial lambs. Paulo Coelho's sinister fable, his 10th novel dealing with religious and ethical dilemmas, is full of caustic fun, supernatural chills, religious pondering, and scathing critiques of human nature--a dark and delightful tale.
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