God Bless Mr. Devil

by Andrew Davis

From the author of the emotionally-charged novel, Hard Road Home, comes an innovative story of extraordinary depth and power. It has been called "the answer to world peace," "the key to the gates of Heaven," and "the twenty-first-century Christmas Carol."

Satan is on a roll. He’s got the world in an uproar, and life is good, until eight-year-old Katie Hart asks her minister on a snowy December “Reverend Frye, why doesn’t anyone pray for the Devil?” That question drives the action and the emotional intensity in this touching story of love and impossible odds.

God Bless Mr. Devil is the story of Satan’s struggle to defend himself against an eight-year-old girl, who believes that praying for the Devil will stop all the bad things that are happening in the world.

There's just one little Satan has a frightening secret that can destroy him, and the empire he has worked so hard to build, and Katie Hart has unknowingly stumbled upon his secret.

This praying-for-the-Devil business has got to stop.

Satan, now old and gray, looking back on a career gone up in flames, finds himself struggling to get this stupid little kid off his back. Then, in one of his weakest moments, overcome by her charm and compassion, he feels “the terror of love in his heart.”

In the end, Katie has a website on the Internet devoted to saving the Devil, and millions of people worldwide are praying for his salvation. Now Satan faces a terrible lose his power and his empire, or destroy the child he has come to love.

There’s only one Hell must be saved.

Pictorial settings, from the warmth of a child’s cozy bedroom, to a howling blizzard, to the hellish Lake of Fire itself, transport the reader into the action, while role reversals, misunderstandings, and conflicting agendas propel this fast-paced, emotionally driven story to its happy ending.

214 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 25, 2011

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