The Infant and the Devil
| Author | Boris Akunin |
|---|---|
| Original title | Младенец и чёрт |
| Language | Russian |
| Series | Brüderschaft with Death |
| Genre | Historical detective |
Publication date | 2007 |
| Publication place | Russia |
| Followed by | The Torment of a Broken Heart |
The Infant and the Devil (Russian: Младенец и чёрт, romanized: Mladenets i chort) is a novel by Boris Akunin, the first part of the first book on the adventures of Russian and German spies during the First World War. In this book the reader first gets to know the two main characters of this literary series - the Russian student Aleksei Romanov and the German super-spy Josef von Theofels. Theofels is a pun on the German word Teufel which translates directly to devil.