The Devil and Dan Cooley [Paperback]

Holly Lisle (Author), Walter Spence (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1996

Meeting an ambitious and upwardly mobile devil named Puck, radio disk jockey Dan agrees to help the devil become a gentleman if Puck will help boost his ratings, but Dan's subsequent promotion involves an unsuspected catch.

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About the Author

Holly Lisle has been doing the pro novelist gig since 1992.  Prior to that, she was an on-again, off-again missionaries' kid, high-school entrepreneur, and once past graduation, a newspaper ad rep, a sign-painter/commercial artist, the "window girl" at a McDonald's, a guitar teacher for absolute beginners, a singer at local restaurants, and because all of those together paid starvation wages, she went to nursing school the next year, and two years later was an RN.

For ten years.  

She paid off her student loan the same year she got her first three-book contract, and...well...she's been writing for her supper ever since.

She is active online, providing courses teaching what she has discovered about writing fiction as well as maintaining her own weblog and website, HollyLisle.com. And with more than a million books in print via commercial publishers, she has now moved to publishing herself.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Baen (September 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671877569
• ISBN-13: 978-0671877569
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,024,635 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun, clever, and entertaining, March 23, 1998

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[e-mail] (Moorhead, Minnesota) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Devil and Dan Cooley (Paperback)

Although not as good as "Sympathy for the Devil," Lisle's first book in this series, this second rendering of the presence of thousands of Hell's Damned Souls in North Carolina is still great fun (lover's of small dogs beware, though). The authors have already found a lot to poke fun at in these books, and, with the number of possibilities for other targets for their sharp wits, this promises to be a long and enjoyable series.

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent, but missing something, June 7, 2009

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Brent Butler (North Carolina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Devil and Dan Cooley (Paperback)

Although this book had somewhat more in the nature of surprises in store for the reader than the first book of the series, it still seemed to be missing something to close the deal.

I'll have to say that at least I did feel somewhat more intrigued to get to the end of the story than I did in "Sympathy for the Devil".

I think what left me flat in this book is that the main 'active bad guy', who had been built up in conversations including Lucifer himself as being REALLY REALLY evil, just wasn't all that bad. The 'active bad guy' in the third book, with no build up at all, was actually much more evil.

Another complaint I had is that the characters in this book were very stereo-typical characers for almost the entire book. Just when they got some real meat to make them interesting, the book was over. Hint to authors: endeavor to make the characters interesting throughout the book, that's just being kind to the readers.

If you wind up reading this book, you won't curse the time you spent, but there are so many better books around that if you tried to read them all, this one wouldn't actually ever get to the top of your stack.

4.0 out of 5 stars Beware the Devil in Sheep's Clothing, October 5, 2004

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Joshua Koppel (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Devil and Dan Cooley (Paperback)

I recently read the Hell books by Holly Lisle (or at least the first three). The books are concerned with the presence of the hellraised on Earth and the interplay between Heaven and Hell.

In THE DEVIL AND DAN COOLEY, North Carolina is still home to the hellraised. Radio DJ Dan Cooley begins a program to help the hellraised redeem themselves. Meanwhile the Devil has assigned a new head to the Earthside operations. As the hellraised get closer to arranging to run a theme park Hell's hidden agenda works its way into the North Carolina residents.

Another fine entry in the series with some very unforseen plot-twists at the end where we find out what has really been going on.