The Devil’s Lieutenant is a novel with a dark story about the Devil’s representatives on Earth as conjured up by Miss Albracht. I found it fascinating.
At first, I had to see the parallels with the ancient German legend of Dr Faust’s pact with the Devil. In return for his soul, Faust is given wishes by the Devil. Mephistopheles helps Faust achieve these goals.
In The Devil’s Lieutenant, Mephistopheles is replaced by Ivanovich, but this is where the stories diverge. Miss Albracht adds her own ingenuity to the original tale, making the story her own.
I found The Devil’s Lieutenant a real page-turner, with plenty of twists, turns and originality to keep me not only interested but fascinated.
It is difficult to talk about Miss Albracht’s treatment of this story without giving away too much, but I did like the twists concerning the serum, and the pills given to one of the main characters by a ‘young girl’.
Miss Albracht’s method of killing immortals is ingenious and ‘believable’.
I recommend The Devil’s Lieutenant to all aficionados of horror, black arts, and fantasy fiction genres.
The story is satisfying as it stands, although it does end rather abruptly, which only gives the reader the hope and expectation that there is a sequel waiting in the wings.
Full marks for The Devil’s Lieutenant and Miss Albracht.
Owen Jones, Amazon Best-Selling Author from Barry, Wales, has lived in several countries and travelled in many more. While studying Russian in the USSR in the '70's, he hobnobbed with spies on a regular basis; in Suriname, he got caught up in the 1982 coup; and while a company director, he joined the crew of four as the galley slave to sail from Barry to Gibraltar a home-made concrete yacht, which was almost rammed by a Russian oil tanker and an American aircraft carrier.
“I am a Celt, and we are romantic”, he said when asked about his writing style, “and I firmly believe in reincarnation, Karma and Fate, so, sayings like 'Do unto another...', and 'What goes round comes around' are central to my life and reflected in my work. I write about what I see, or think I see, or dream... and, in the end it is all the same really”. He speaks seven languages and is learning Thai, since he lives in Thailand with his Thai wife of fifteen years.
His first novel, Daddy's Hobby is from the seven-part series 'Behind The Smile: The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya', but his largest collection is 'The Megan Series', twenty-three novelettes on the psychic development of a teenage girl, the subtitle of which, 'A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger and One Scary Mother!' sums them up nicely. He has written fifty novels and novelettes, including: Dead Centre; Andropov's Cuckoo; Fate Twister; The Disallowed (a philosophical comedy); Tiger Lily of Bangkok; and A Night in Annwn (Annwn being the ancient Welsh word for Heaven). Many have been translated into foreign languages and narrated into audio books.
Owen Jones writes stories set in Wales, Spain and Thailand, where he now lives. He is a life-long Spiritualist, and this belief is interwoven, in a very realistic way, into many of his books and storylines. If you like a touch of the 'supernatural', try his books
He sums his life up thus: “Born in the Land of Song, Living in the Land of Smiles”.
