Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984. The year a heatwave scorched the small town of Breathed, Ohio. The year he came friends with the devil. When a tattered and bruised 13-year-old boy turns up in the town claiming to be Satan himself, everybody assumes he is just a runaway. But when strange things start happening to the townsfolk, there are some who start to believe Sal is exactly who he claims to be ... Winner of the Guardian's "Not the Booker" Prize 2016.