Creed

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Summary: Discovering Demons
Review: Remember the movie The Omen where David Warner's character, a photographer, starts to find strange images in the photographs he takes of people? Well Creed is one big book about that as paparazzo Joe Creed, a character of the Princess Diana chasing type, finds himself photographing an important figure doing something over a coffin after a funeral which results in various forces coming after him to get the negatives. Creed then begins to unravel a world where monsters and demons exist and are aided by the rich and famous who he makes his living from. It makes for an original piece of reading, although not exactly hollywood material, comes across as very frightening most of the time and for that does exactly what it says on the label. Well worth discovering Herbert through this book and his other good one, Fluke.

Rating:
Summary: Readable and entertaining
Review: The hero of this book, Joe Creed, is a sleezebag paparazzo, which is the singular noun for paparazzi. He has few positive attributes. He would do anything to get a good photograph so that he can sell it to the newspapers. He has an ex-wife whom he hates. He even hates his young son. This unendearing character holds our attention because of his complete lack of scruples. What makes this book so satisfying is that, despite himself, he does the decent thing, and at the end of the book, he becomes it's hero. It even has the corps of the paparazzi charging to the rescue like the calvary, which has got to be one of the cleverest twists I have ever read. The book is genuinely frightening. If the end doesn't quite resolve itself satisfactory, then the rest of the book succeeds in carrying you effortlessly from one page to the next.