
As ideological ferment grips Russia a small group of revolutionaries led by Pyotr Verkhovensky & inspired by Nikolai Stavrogin plan to spread destruction & anarchy throughout the country Morally bankrupt they are prepared to use whatever means necessary to achieve their goal including murder & incitement to suicide But when they are forced to test the limits of their doctrine & kill one of their own to secure the secrecy of their mission the ragtag group breaks up in mutual recrimination Devils is at once a compelling political statement & a study of atheism & its calamitous effect on a country that is teetering on the edge of an abyss Seen as Dostoevsky&s most powerful indictment of man&s propensity to violence this darkly humorous work shot through with grotesque comedy is presented here in Roger Cockrell&s masterful new translation