num_pages: 326
description: Wilfred Lever son of ambitious missionaries is wrenched from his life in an Indian village by a prophecy: he shall be Elijah in his own country. Sent to Adelaide to stay with a perverted aunt he is well into adolescence when his family joins him there. In the first manifestation of a burgeoning power complex he forces himself upon his half-sister now a deeply desirable young woman. The prophecy seals Wilfred's moral doom as the institutional nature of his life protects him from retribution. A character with no moral compass he gets away with corruption and hypocrisy. But when Wilfred rapes his niece it seems his number is up. The board forces Wilfred's resignation but at his lowest point it seems the prophecy really is true. The church is priming him for politics: all his travails have led him to this moment where at last he is on the brink of true power.
language: None
title: Play the Devil
publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform