''A definite must for all fans of comic fantasy'' - ENIGMA

''Wacky humour bubbles through the polished narrative ... Holt doesn''t skimp on the flashes of brilliance'' - SFX

Ever been offered a promotion that seems too good to be true? You know - the sort they''d be insane to be offering to someone like you. The kind where you snap their arm off to accept, then wonder why all your long-serving colleagues look secretly relieved, as if they''re off some strange and unpleasant hook ...

It''s the kind of trick that deeply sinister companies like J.W. Wells & Co. pull all the time. Especially with employees who are too busy mooning over the office intern to think about what they''re getting into.

And it''s why, right about now, Paul Carpenter is wishing he''d paid much less attention to the gorgeous Melze, and rather more to a little bit of job description small-print referring to ''pest'' control ...

Books by Tom Holt:

Walled Orchard Series
Goatsong
The Walled Orchard

J.W. Wells & Co. Series
The Portable Door
In Your Dreams
Earth, Air, Fire and Custard
You Don''t Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But It Helps
The Better Mousetrap
May Contain Traces of Magic
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages

YouSpace Series
Doughnut
When It''s A Jar
The Outsorcerer''s Apprentice
The Good, the Bad and the Smug

Novels
Expecting Someone Taller
Who''s Afraid of Beowulf
Flying Dutch
Ye Gods!
Overtime
Here Comes the Sun
Grailblazers
Faust Among Equals
Odds and Gods
Djinn Rummy
My Hero
Paint your Dragon
Open Sesame
Wish you Were Here
Alexander at World''s End
Only Human
Snow White and the Seven Samurai
Olympiad
Valhalla
Nothing But Blue Skies
Falling Sideways
Little People
Song for Nero
Meadowland
Barking
Blonde Bombshell
The Management Style of the Supreme Beings
An Orc on the Wild Side