The Father of Lies

Dust jacket illustration by Vincent Chong

Bringing together KJ Parker’s recent novellas and novelettes, totaling over 500 pages of wry, twisty fiction, Father of Lies delves into the arcane as never before. Set amid the world of Parker’s critically acclaimed novels and award winning stories, as well as our own, this volume reveals a side rarely glimpsed in his other works. Contained herein are the tales of creatures that pluck the strings of existence, exposing the seedy underbelly of ultimate power as only Parker can.

It begins with love, as it often does. In All the Things We Do for Love, Parker demonstrates the age old proverb ‘be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.’ It continues with a fall from grace, in Downfall of the Gods, where a daughter of heaven unwittingly pits herself against her divine family. Demonic pacts are everywhere, in The Devil You Know, where Parker returns to Saloninus, his iconic character who will finish what he started so many years ago. It ends with a beginning, in No Peace for the Wicked, as a New Pope is chosen to push back the darkness.

Filled with Parker’s hallmark wit and biting humor, Father of Lies is an essential collection, not just for the dedicated fantasist, but for anyone committed to a great story well told. Like all of KJ Parker's brilliant fiction, these stories whisper the truth. 

Just ask yourself, can you trust the Father of Lies?

Table of Contents: 

• The Things We Do for Love
• Downfall of the Gods
• The Last Witness
• The Devil You Know
• I Met a Man Who Wasn’t There
• Heaven Thunders the Truth
• Message in a Bottle
• Rules
• Safe House
• The Dragonslayer of Merebarton
• Told by an Idiot
• No Peace for the Wicked

Limited to 1000 signed and numbered hardcover copies