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    The Devil and W. Kaspar
    The Devil and W. Kaspar
    The Devil and W. Kaspar
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    The Devil and W. Kaspar

    By Benjamin Appel

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    A holy man in an unholy bind

    William Kaspar was not your everday sinner. Quite the reverse.

    William had renounced the pleasures of the flesh. He had quelled his ambitions and appetites. He had donned the robes of a Buddhist monk to search for Nirvana in the human jungle of New York.

    But when a beautiful woman led him all the way into temptation . . . when a goatish sailor became his guide through the lower depths of depravity . . . when the Evil One Himself gave William one diabolical change to save the entire earth from destruction . . .

    William had to say yes . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster
    Release dateJan 4, 2012
    ISBN9781440562877
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