The Testament of Gideon Mack

Liked this a lot, I'm almost surprised how much. It's the (fictional) memoir of a (fictional) Presbyterian minister who claims to have fallen down a chasm in Scotland down to a river, and to have been rescued by the Devil himself. That's the book jacket pitch, and of course it's the main event, but I was a bit surprised at what a small portion of the book it is. Well-drawn characters and of course the question asked by Mack's fictional contemporaries is the question posed to the reader: Is Mack mad, lying, or somehow telling the truth?

Quite readable and oddly compelling.