All the Demons Are Here

by Jake Tapper

Overview

Bestselling author Jake Tapper’s “absolute page-turner” (Gillian Flynn) transports readers to the 1970s underground world of cults, celebrities, tabloid journalism, serial killers, disco, and UFOs.

It’s 1977. Ike and Lucy, the kids of Senator Charlie and Margaret Marder, are grown up—and in trouble.

US Marine Ike has gone AWOL after a military operation gone horribly wrong. Now he's off the grid, working on the pit crew of the moody stunt master Evel Knievel and hanging in the roughest dive bar in Montana. His sister Lucy has become the star reporter of a brand-new Washington, DC tabloid breaking stories about a serial killer and falling in with the wealthy, shady British family that owns the newspaper. 

As they deal with the weirdness and menace of the time—celebrities, cults, the rise of tabloid journalism, the death of Elvis Presley, the Summer of Sam, and a time of national unease—Ike and Lucy soon realize that their worlds are not only full of compromises and bad choices, but danger. As their lives begin to spiral out of control, they also spiral towards one another. And the decisions they make could mean life and death not only for them—but also their beloved parents.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316424387
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	07/11/2023
Series:	Charlie and Margaret Marder Series , #3
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	64,766
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Jake Tapper has written two New York Times bestselling novels, The Hellfire Club and The Devil May Dance, as well as the bestselling nonfiction book The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor, which was turned into a critically acclaimed film in 2020. He is the lead DC anchor and chief Washington correspondent for CNN. A Dartmouth graduate and Philly native, he lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, daughter, and son.

Editorial Reviews

05/08/2023

CNN news anchor Tapper’s limp third mystery featuring the Marder family (following 2021’s The Devil May Dance) shifts focus from politician Charlie Marder to his children, Ike and Lucy, in a narrative that toggles between developments in their lives in 1977. Ike, who was traumatized by a combat mission in Lebanon, has joined celebrity daredevil Evel Knievel in Montana as a member of his pit crew. Meanwhile, Lucy has been lured from her reporting job at Washington, D.C.’s Star newspaper after being cheated out of a byline to join the Sentinel, a lurid tabloid published by a Rupert Murdoch stand-in. As Ike struggles with violent impulses and his fraught relationship with Knievel, Lucy’s editors challenge her journalistic ethics when they try to pin the identity of a possible D.C.-area serial killer on a young Black man, despite the results of Lucy’s own investigation. Overwrought prose (“For America, the entire decade was like a once-glossy Polaroid fading in the sun, all that had been vibrant proven ephemeral”) doesn’t help sell some wildly improbable plot developments. When a character literally jumps the shark, it’s a sign that Tapper’s formerly exciting series may have done so as well. Agent: Robert B. Barnett, Williams & Connolly. (July)

Publishers Weekly

Jake Tapper has become a master storyteller with his dazzling skill of weaving real people and events with a cast of characters as gripping as any in fiction.” 
 —Michael Connelly

“Jake Tapper’s latest, All The Demons Are Here, is an absolute page-turner chronicling the continuing adventures of the Marder clan. Evel Knievel? Check.  UFOs?  Check?  A serial killer stalking the nation’s capital?  Check. And all set during one of America’s secretly weirdest years: 1977.  Powered by dual protagonists Ike and Lucy Marder, the book sends the reader pinballing across America, looking for answers in a strange, post-Watergate world.  Tapper’s deep knowledge of American history is on display, as is his obvious love of American pop culture— the good, the bad, and the bizarre. ‘Merica, baby!!!!"
 —Gillian Flynn

“Jake Tapper's All the Demons Are Here is a fantastic and engrossing thriller that travels the reader through one of the most fascinating periods in American history. Tapper has a deep understanding of the subjects he writes about and presents a rich tapestry of politics, life and culture and shows how they intersect and collide. Tapper has emerged as a writer of fine craft, detail and observation.  Count me as a huge fan of his writing and his books.”
 —Don Winslow

“Jake Tapper's All the Demons Are Here is a brilliant and beautifully written book that had me from page one and never let me go. Tapper's novel is a deeply immersive experience, an expertly written thriller that places you in a fascinating period of American history with great characters you care about and want to spend time with. In All The Demons Are Here Tapper has delivered another wickedly smart, emotional and gripping page-turning thriller after The Devil May Dance and The Hellfire Club. I will read whatever he writes."
 —T.J. Newman

From the Publisher

2023-05-09
Tapper's family saga—begun in The Devil May Dance (2021)—continues in 1977 with Sen. Charlie Marder’s son, Ike, hiding out with Evel Knievel in Montana, and daughter, Lucy, a budding reporter, tracking a serial killer in Virginia.

Ike, an AWOL Marine, has joined the bad-tempered Knievel’s pit crew as a way of eluding military authorities following a mysterious incident in Lebanon that left him with bullet wounds and a broken leg. Lucy, clinging to the notion that her job as a journalist “is to educate and enlighten,” has been lured to a new tabloid owned by a Murdoch-like family. With the death of Elvis Presley and the Son of Sam’s killings fouling the national mood, “everyone’s on edge,” one character says. Ultimately, the siblings’ paths intersect on a Georgia island where their father is attending a Republican retreat and members of a freaky religious cult are planning a violent demonstration. A devoted history buff, Tapper, the CNN host, litters his novels with period details, movie and book references, political commentary, and celebrity cameos (Lucy’s heroes Woodward and Bernstein make appearances). Ultimately, they serve the narrative less than the narrative serves them. Tapper feels compelled to explain his characters’ references to familiar things, rather oddly including footnotes in chapters narrated by Lucy (Cindy-Lou Who, she tells us, was her favorite character in How the Grinch Stole Christmas). The serial killings stay on a back burner, Knievel is a concept more than a character, and Elvis gets an undue amount of attention. “It was hard to explain if you didn’t already worship at the altar of the King,” says Ike. More of an effort to do so would go a long way.

A quasi-mystery in search of authenticity.

Kirkus Reviews

Set in 1977, the third Charlie and Margaret Marder mystery focuses on Ike and Lucy, the Marders' adult children. The novel alternates between the perspective of Ike, portrayed by Rob Shapiro, and Lucy, portrayed by Meg Price. As the country struggles to move beyond Nixon/Watergate, Ike, a U.S. Marine/Vietnam vet, takes off with Evel Knievel's crew. Shapiro, the stronger narrator, infuses Ike with defiance, despair, and determination. Lucy is a DC journalist struggling with her integrity as the "news" becomes sensationalized. Price struggles with supporting characters but voices Lucy with resolve and passion. During this unique historical period, the siblings' lives become intertwined, and they're forced to make decisions that will impact everything around them. K.S.M. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

SEPTEMBER 2023 -- AudioFile