NOW SPEAKS THE DEVIL
An Original Screenplay by
Thomas Burchfield
Some men are so blind, only Evil can make them see.
Chip Adams is a child in middle-age. He lives in a sheltered
neighborhood in a San Francisco suburb in the house where he was born, a museum
of childhood memories he shares with his adoring family. An amateur magician, he
still has every toy he’s ever owned. Why grow up?
But an adulthood deferred comes with a price: Chip's little boy is recovering from a serious illness. With his
toy and magic shop failing, Chip has mortgaged his house to keep it afloat. His
little church is also going under. His
wife, Ruth, offers to work. But even that small compromise would signal the end
of the values that Chip holds dear. He believes in magic, believes that prayer
is all he needs to keep him and his world forever unchanged.
Then, one night, like one of Chip's magic tricks, two million dollars in cash appears in his garbage can.
A gift from God, the defeat
of the inevitable? Or something else? Something worse . . . .
Like a gift from the Devil,
in the guise of Thornton--
underworld troubleshooter, enforcer and assassin of blazing cold malice, reptilian cunning and a piercing eye for human frailty—a villain among villains.
underworld troubleshooter, enforcer and assassin of blazing cold malice, reptilian cunning and a piercing eye for human frailty—a villain among villains.
An exhilarating blend of
Alfred Hitchcock’s devious wit with the sharp eye of Richard Stark and the strutting
villainy of a Sergio Leone movie, Now
Speaks the Devil is a comic noir that
will pull you to the edge of your seat. With the third in his series of
original screenplays, Thomas Burchfield, the author of Dragon’s Ark and The Uglies,
has conjured another wicked thriller.
Now Speaks the Devil is now available exclusively in e-book editions at Amazon and all other major e-book retailers!
You can read Burchfield's essay on how he came to write his latest work here!
For more information, contact the author at tbdeluxe@sbcglobal.net; or Ambler House Publishing at amblerhouse@att.net
Cover by Cathi Stevenson/Bookcover Express.
You can read Burchfield's essay on how he came to write his latest work here!
For more information, contact the author at tbdeluxe@sbcglobal.net; or Ambler House Publishing at amblerhouse@att.net
Cover by Cathi Stevenson/Bookcover Express.
