In Christopher Moore’s ingenious debut novel, we meet perhaps one of the most memorably mismatched pairs in the annals of literature. The good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old ex-seminarian and ‘highways’ scholar Travis O’Hearn. The green the first is Catch, a demon with an awful habit of consuming a lot of people he matches. Behind the false Tudor facade of Pine Cove, California, Capture sees a four-star buffet. Travis, alternatively, thinks he views a way of ridding himself of his toothy traveling friend. The winos, neo-pagans, and deadbeat Lotharios of Pine Cove, meanwhile, have other tips. And none of these is quite prepared when all hell breaks loose.