I always suspected that I would be famous. Even as a young child, with my parents fussing as parents will and my older brother striking a path before me that I would deviate from as soon as I was able, I knew somehow that my name would be repeated by others in hushed tones. Urgent, awed and terrified. The unworthy, confronted by a mediaeval saint.
Moses Kafulu!
An Irishman with a fiddle, a shrewd and lazy farmer, a shepherd and a rooster and a bridge. Who doesn’t know a story about the Devil? Churches, dykes, punchbowls, myths hung on standing stones, tales woven around camp fires late at night for children desperate to taste some thrill of the unknown. And always, always, a cunning man who outwits Old Nick and escapes with his soul intact. Exalted company indeed.
Moses Kafulu, the man who tricked the Devil!
Simon John Cox's debut novel tells the story of Moses Kafulu from the eyes of four different narrators, each one in turn revealing a little more about the truth behind him and the reason for his pursuit by the police. It is a compelling, thought-provoking literary novel that weaves its themes of relative morality and individual perception within the narrative of a thriller.
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