{"product_id":"9781942146223","title":"Devil Knows: A Tale of Murder and Madness in America's First Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eNominated for a Pulitzer Prize and a finalist in the USA Best Book Awards in the Historical Fiction category, \u003cem\u003eDevil Knows: A Tale of Murder and Madness in America’s First Century\u003c\/em\u003e is a mystery-in-the-archives thriller written with great charm and cinematic flair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the dead of night at the height of the 1692 Salem mania, a dying smallpox victim collapses in prison while visiting a witch condemned to hang – Mary Bradbury, the great ancestor of famed writer Ray Bradbury.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA delirious old man, Hopestill Foster, is brought before the Rev. Cotton Mather, the infamous witch-hunter and the most powerful man in ancient Boston, for a very private interrogation. Mather is desperate for answers about Foster’s past because he knows it ties into his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetter had he not asked.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the course of the prisoner telling his story to the cleric, 60 years of a terrible history unfolds, at the heart of which is a monstrous secret about Mather’s family that must not be allowed to escape the room where Foster is being held.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHopestill Foster, the novel's protagonist, a man inured to a lifetime of suffering and one to whom a great wrong was done by him and to him in his youth, ultimately has to decide. Pass on, leaving the wreckage of his life behind, or accept a final deadly mission to make things right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Hopestill Foster, there is only one choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Joseph Kolb’s \u003cem\u003eDevil Knows: A Tale of Murder and Madness in America’s First Century\u003c\/em\u003e, a thrilling historical adventure in the grand storytelling tradition of \u003cem\u003eNorthwest Passage\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDrums Along the Mohawk\u003c\/em\u003e, breaks new literary ground about the very first American century - a nearly forgotten post-Pilgrim past when intolerance, misogyny and ignorance culminated in horrifying outrages against ordinary people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet it rediscovers, too, that hope was never lost, and that heroes were always among us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Garn Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033870123248,"sku":"9781942146223","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781942146223_p0.jpg?v=1763754722","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781942146223","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}