Vicious circle 2009 series#
Vicious circle 2009 windows#

And anyway, I figure that if you give them a little showmanship they’ll be more impressed when you come up with the goods. When the Met calls, I answer, because they pay on the nose, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it. Well, Jesus, you know? It was Saturday night, and I already had a heap of my own shit to cope with. ‘I have to intone the mantra another dozen or so times.’ I don’t know if all this tact and diplomacy is something he was born with or if he just learned it at cop school. ‘Have you finished arsing around, Castor?’ he asked, fanning the smoke irritably away from his face.

Vicious circle 2009 windows#

The warehouse was on the Edgware Road, on the ragged hinterlands of an old industrial estate: judging from the smashed windows outside and the rows and rows of empty shelves inside, it had been abandoned for a good few years – but Coldwood had invited me to join him and a few uniformed friends for a legally authorised search, so it was a fair bet that appearances were deceptive. A lot of the magic’s gone by then.ĭetective Sergeant Gary Coldwood gave me a downright hostile look through the tendrils of the smoke, which curled lazily up through the cavernous interior of the warehouse, the sweet smell dissipating along the aisles of sour dust. But in London, where I live, it’s mostly encountered in the form of compacted black lumps of soft, flaky resin. In Southern Africa it grows wild: you can walk through fields of it, waist-high, the five-fronded leaves caressing you like little hands. The incense stick burned with an orange flame and smelled of Cannabis sativa. When satanists, stolen spirits, sacrifice farms, and haunted churches all appear on the same police report, the name Felix Castor can’t be too far behind.

What he gets is a seemingly insignificant “missing ghost” case that inexorably drags him and his loved ones into the middle of a horrific plot to raise one of hell’s fiercest demons. His friend Rafi is still possessed, the succubus Ajulutsikael (Juliet to her friends) still technically has a contract on him, and he’s still dirt poor.ĭoing some consulting for the local cops helps pay the bills, but Castor needs a big private job to really fill the hole in his bank account.

Vicious circle 2009 series#

Author of The Girl With All the Gifts Mike Carey presents the second book in his hip supernatural thriller series featuring freelance exorcist Felix Castor.įelix Castor has reluctantly returned to exorcism after a successful case convinces him that he really can do some good with his abilities - “good,” of course, being a relative term when dealing with the undead.