Author | Dan Wells |
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Cover artist | Peter Lutjen |
Language | English |
Series | John Cleaver Second Trilogy |
Genre | Horror |
Published | 2015, Tor Books |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print book (hardcover and paperback) e-book, audiobook |
Pages | 304 |
Award | 2015 Whitney Award for Speculative Fiction |
ISBN | 9780765380661 |
OCLC | 906447620 |
Preceded by | I Don't Want to Kill You |
Followed by | Over Your Dead Body |
The Devil's Only Friend is a 2015 horror novel by Dan Wells published by Tor Books.[1] It tells the story of teenage sociopath John Wayne Cleaver, now seventeen years old and the member of a team of FBI agents dedicated to hunting down a network of supernatural murderers known as "the Withered." The Devil's Only Friend is the fourth book in the John Wayne Cleaver series, preceded by I Am Not a Serial Killer (2009), Mr. Monster (2010), and I Don't Want to Kill You (2011). The majority of its reviews were positive, and it was selected as the 2015 Whitney Award winner in the speculative fiction category. Translations include Spanish and German.[2] It the first novel in the second John Cleaver trilogy, and is followed by Over Your Dead Body (2016).[3]