The Fury and the Power [Mass Market Paperback]

John Farris (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 19, 2003

Eden Waring has known fear in her life. She is an Avatar, a talented young psychic with the ability to produce at will her doppelganger - her mirror image, who calls herself "Gwen" and possesses remarkable powers beyond even Eden's gifts. Gwen can be invisible to mortal eyes, if she chooses to be, and can even travel back and forth in time.

As gifted as Eden and Gwen are, there is an even stronger entity that stalks them, coveting Gwen's unique talents. He is known as Mordant, the Dark Side of God, a being both ageless and deadly, so evil that his soul was split in two by the Caretakers, ancient souls in surprising positions of earthly influence, who are charged to watch over humankind. In order to regain his full potential for destruction and reach his goal of world domination, he must accomplish two goals: seduce Eden Waring through any means necessary and take away Eden's control of her own doppelganger.

In human form, Mordant is the ultimate trickster: handsome, wealthy, charming. But when he is provoked, he is nothing but deadly. Eden is his unwitting prey, stalked from the barren Rift Valley of Kenya to the holy streets of Rome, and finally to the neon glitz of Las Vegas, where a terrible and frightening reckoning is waiting to pounce on them both.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Wilder and weirder than its predecessor (The Fury and the Terror), this second sequel to Farris's trendsetting supernatural thriller The Fury (1976) takes risks that will befuddle newcomers but titillate loyal fans used to his audacity. Once again second-generation psychic Eden Waring is pursued by malevolent forces hell-bent on harnessing her awesome and largely unrealized paranormal powers. This time the villain is the sinister demiurge Mordaunt, known to his adversaries as "The Dark Side of God." In the guise of stage magician Lincoln Grayle, Mordaunt has been endowing select attendees of his Vegas extravaganzas with fearsome shapeshifting powers, then using them as assassins against prominent world religious leaders. It's surely not a coincidence that these events draw Eden and her team of psychic operatives out of seclusion and into the magician's sphere: Mordaunt needs Eden's doppelganger, Gwen, who can travel through time, to retrieve the half of his soul imprisoned in a mortal form in 1926; he also plans to impregnate Eden to further his plans for domination of the earthly dimension. There are more twists and turns in the plot than in a nest full of snakes, but Farris distracts readers from the improbabilities and logic stretches with strategically timed blasts of paranormal pyrotechnics and old-fashioned gory gunplay. The ending holds a few disappointing surprises, including plot threads left dangling until the forthcoming Avenging Fury, but readers who have sojourned thus far in the strange and chaotic world of Farris's fiction will surely return for another installment. Last year Farris received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association.
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"America's premier novelist of terror . . . Nobody does it better."-Stephen King

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Forge Books; 1st edition (October 19, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812578651
• ISBN-13: 978-0812578652
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,559,187 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars pulse pounding psychological suspense and chilling horror, March 1, 2003

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This review is from: The Fury and the Power (Hardcover)

She is not ordinary woman in any sense of the world. She is a powerful psychic who can call forth her doppelganger at any time she chooses, an entity equal in power to Eden Waring. She defused a bomb by using her powers but that doesn't make her a safe or happy person. The Assassin of the Impact Sector of the FBI tried to kill her once but failed and he's back for a second shot.

That is not the worst danger she faces because, after all, the Assassin is only a mundane psychopath. She has attracted the attention of Mordant, an evil being from another plane, who has lost part of his soul. He hopes to use Eden to find it so he can plunge the world into chaos. He also wants to mate with her so that the child they will produce will be quite the fury. Eden wants no part of the evil Mordant and will fight him with her last breath before she gives him any victory over her.

THE FURY AND THE POWER is a pulse pounding work of psychological suspense and chilling horror. Eden is a young woman who must cope with her own powers and otherworldly beings without succumbing to their dark side. There are many violent scenes in this book but they are appropriate in the context of the story line. The sequel promises to be even better but readers will have to wait something that will prove a very difficult task.

Harriet Klausner

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Amazing Talent of John Farris, January 10, 2008

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J. Duindam "Jilles Duindam" (Amsterdam Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Fury and the Power (Mass Market Paperback)

It always amazes me that not more people know the work of John Farris and not more people feel the need to write reviews about his books. The Power and the Fury being a case in point. This rip-roaring tale of psychic avatar Eden Waring starts with a great bloody scene in church and doesn't let up until the end of the book. The characters are wonderful guides through a story that twists and turns like a serpent. It is obvious that Farris loves to tell a great story and lucky for us is that he has the talent and a sharp and very clever mind to give us more than what we can ask for for a great thriller. John Farris has been and is still one of the best horror and thriller writers since the late nineteen fifties. Sadly most of his titles are out of print, but I guess this makes finding one of his books an even more pleasure experience. This upcoming may the fourth and final installment of The Fury series will be published. I for one am looking forward to it. Thank you Mr. Farris for giving us so much scary and thrilling entertainment.