This is the first book in Robert Asprin's Myth-series. Published in 1978 and one fun piece of humourous fantasy. Skeeve is the ex-thief, now apprentiece that has his doubts about the real use of magic. Naturally his master decides to teach him a lesson and he summons a demon to show the power of magic. In the middle of the summoning, an assassin sneaks into the cottage and kills the magician, luckily the magician manages to kill the assassin before he dies. This leaves Skeeve with two corpses and one nasty-looking demon and a great amount of "I-wish-I-were-somewhere-else"-feelings. Things are seldom what they seem to be, and a demon is simply someone from another dimension. The demon Aahz is from the dimension Perv, but it doesn't make him a Pervert, it makes him a Pervect as he points out often and with very little effect on other peoples way of looking at him. Together they sets out on an adventure for revenge, and will find themselves ending up in many humourous events and dimensions. This book ended just like that, I read it in no time. I'm glad I got the omnibus since I could dig into volume #2 of the series right away. If you like humourous fantasy, and who doesn't? know what I mean, nudge, nudge. say no more, you'll surely like this one and since Asprin was one of the first of the new bunch of humourous sf/fantasy-authors you should get your hands on a copy of this book. I give this book four and a half happy dragons out of five.
