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|title=The Demon Code

|sort=Demon Code

|publisher=Sphere

|date=August 2012

|summary=The conspiracy thriller market may be overloaded, but there is still room for some decent novels within it. Adam Blake's ''The Demon Code'' is definitely one of them.

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It's just as well I don't judge a book by its cover, as reading the back of ''The Demon Code'' was not a good start. For one thing, it's a conspiracy thriller with a title that evokes comparisons with an over-rated bestseller from a few years ago. Then there is the fact that Alex Blake is a pseudonym for another author and, as Stephen King once said of writing as Richard Bachman: ''If it was any good, the guy would have put his real name on it. If he lied about his name, the book must suck...''