In Christopher Moore's ingenious debut novel, we meet one of the most memorably
mismatched pairs in the annals of literature. The good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old
ex-seminarian and "roads" scholar Travis O'Hearn. The green one is Catch,
a demon with a nasty habit of eating most of the people he meets. Behind the fake
Tudor facade of Pine Cove, California, Catch sees a four-star buffet. Travis,
on the other hand, thinks he sees a way of ridding himself of his toothy traveling
companion. The winos, neo-pagans, and deadbeat Lotharious of Pine Cove, meanwhile,
have other ideas. And none of them is quite prepared when all hell breaks loose.
