by William W. Johnstone
1987, Zebra Books
Sam, Nydia, and Little Sam travel the country looking for towns that Satan has taken over. They drive back to Whitfield, Nebraska, the scene of the first book to pick up a dog. Does the dog have fleas? He doesn't - Nydia just knows. He has no collar - none that earthly eyes can perceive. Johnstone gets this out of the way early and thankfully doesn't spend a lot of time laboring over cosmic rules and people just knowing things. Unfortunately, he also got rid of everything else the Devil series was good at. Less violent, less gory, less rapey, more talky.
There are a couple of subplots that don't amount to much, such as a man turning into a panther and a couple of escaped mental patients, but otherwise it's a less focused version of the last book. Sam's devil daughter Xaviere wants to have sex with him to breed some super witch or something and Sam wants to kill all the satanists.
Little Sam is a reverse Damien and Xaviere and her fcoven get forgotten about at the end of the book, the tablet is mentioned just once, and the conclusion is a completely disjointed mess, with way too many survivors to keep track of
Not the last Devil book, but the last to have the Balon family. It ends with a jokey little sequence of the President making a joke about Democrats.
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