The Devil's Own Work is a 1991 novella by Alan Judd which won the Guardian Fiction Award.

A modern version of the Faust legend,[1] it was inspired by a dinner with Graham Greene.

[2] and tells of a pact an author makes with the devil as told by his lifelong friend.

In style the work was compared by Publishers Weekly with that of Henry James.

[3] The unnamed narrator tells of his friend Edward's meeting in the south of France with O. M. (Old Man) Herig, a renowned author.