The Devil and Manuel de Salazar Author:Don Williams The day after he arrives to take up a University post in Finland, Manuel de Salazar is accosted in a Helsinki park by a towering beast that represents itself as a messenger of the Devil. The experience is vivid, and involves a terrifying journey into oblivion. Manuel is threatened and given a short time to agree to perform a secret task in ... more »return for which he will be endowed with great powers, the most significant of which is that he will become irresistable to women. Shortly after this encounter, he meets a beautiful young Finnish girl, Anna-Maija, and the ensuing sexual relationship between them is of such intensity that he agrees to the Faustian bargain. Manuel goes on to discover that he can read minds, control inanimate objects and even cause people to exercise his will. As the story unfolds, Manuel embarks on a discovery of the darkest aspects of human sin; a journey that is capped by a quite shocking twist at the end.« less