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Lucifer Jones (Questar Fantasy)

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The Right Reverend Doctor Lucifer Jones is neither a reverend nor a doctor nor right. He's a bumbling, money-grubbing fool from the Midwest. This wonderfully clever book follows Jones as he travels the world in search of a place to build his tabernacle. But along the way, Jones discovers lost civilizations, dragons, evil would-be world conquerers and every conceivable low-life. Jones is always looking for the next money making scam. The fact that Jones isn't too bright makes his adventures highly entertaining and very humorous. He eventually gets banned from every nation he encounters, from Hong Kong and Japan to England and Spain and everywhere inbetween. Highly entertaining stuff, laugh-out-loud funny.

Lucifer Jones has a talent for getting out of trouble that is only superseded by his idiotic behavior, easily manipulated greed, easily manipulated lust, suspicious miserdom, unscrupulous gluttony, wanton blasphemy, and a canny knack for getting into adventures in the first place. He proves the point better than any other character I know of, that an adventure is where some other guy gets into trouble, `cause, friend, the Reverend Lucifer Jones is never without trouble.

All through his adventures, Lucifer attempts to scam, cheat, con, steal, or otherwise obtain the necessary funds for the establishment of his Tabernacle, where he intends to do the lord's work with any attractive young women who're willing. All through his adventures, Lucifer is scammed, cheated, conned, beat up, shot at, and ejected and banned as a threat to the nation from every country within whose borders he sets a foot. From Hong-Kong to Paris, Transylvania to Peru, Lucifer makes his blindingly shady way. Just read it. I guarantee it's a gut-buster.