In this book, Tom and the Spook are battling against every witch coven in the county - there are three witch covens, each made out of 13 witches. Tom also has to put up with an old enemy of his mother's, Wurmdale. Wurmdale is a Greek witch who tries to kill Tom by summoning the most powerful demon of all - the Devil, also known as Old Nick or the Fiend. Wurmdale manages to get the Moldheel coven, the Malkin coven and the Dean coven together and summon the Fiend, but Tom has a new weapon on his side - his two aunts. They are not witches, but they have giant wings and are incredibly dangerous. He only knows they are his aunts because it was in one of his mother's journals - the aunts don't actually talk, they just make screams. Tom tries to hide from the fiend in his mom's special room, but he is almost drawn out of it until Father Stock (who was a former apprentice of the Spook)'s ghost appears. Tom lets Father Stock's ghost go to heaven by telling him that he wasn't just a priest, he was a Spook too, and he should concentrate on his happiest moment. Then Father Stock's ghost goes to heaven, and the depression from the Fiend is lifted and he stays in the special room for a few more hours until he senses that he is OK to go outside. At the end of the book, Alice (the friendly witch from the first book) and Tom are holding hands thinking they have escaped the Fiend. But they haven't, which you'll find out about in the next two books.
I rate this book ten out of ten. What I liked about it was the description of the biggest cannon in the county, and how the witches made Tibb (a creature made out of an ox's brain and a hog and witches spit). It was very exciting and I definitely want to read the next book. There was nothing l didn't like about it.
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