title: Devil Take the Hindmost
author:  Joel Jenkins 
description: <b>...</b>pure purple-prose at its frenetic best, marvelous characters, good and bad, who populate his story and move it along with a razor sharp pacing... His action sequences are among the best I've ever read. --Pulp Fiction Reviews, Ron Fortier<br /><br />Currently books starring vampire hunters are very much in vogue, but very few of them pack the wallop this book contains. --Pulp Fiction Review, Ron Fortier
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  **DEVIL TAKE THE HINDMOST**
  
   **The Otherworldly Music of**
  
   **Allan Holdsworth**
  
    
  
   **Loose Cog Edition**
  
    
  
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  **Ed Chang**
  
    
  
  © Ed Chang, 2020. All rights reserved.
  
    
  
  Cover photo: Nancy Clendaniel (Allan Holdsworth, The Beverly Theatre, Beverly
  Hills, CA, December 29, 1983)
  
    
  
  Author photo: Philip Vukelich (NYC 2018)
  
    
  
  A portion of this material was originally published in web form in 2017 as “A
  Thread of Lunacy” at https://threadoflunacy.blogspot.com/.
  
    
  
  An earlier print edition of this book was published in April 2020 as Devil
  Take the Hindmost, The Otherworldly Music of Allan Holdsworth, Jazz in Britain
  Ltd. (U.K.).
  
    
  
  This digital edition, Devil Take the Hindmost, The Otherworldly Music of Allan
  Holdsworth, Loose Cog Edition, is published July 2020, Ed Chang at Smashwords.
  
    
  
  Smashwords Edition, License Notes
  
  This ebook is licensed 