Highly, highly recommended,
I think The Devil's Eye is the best McDevitt novel since The Engines of God....
This book will be a tough act to beat in the Alex/Chase universe....
--Fantasy Book Critic
...Displays a truly Asimovian set of attractions....
This book seems to belong on the shelf with recent Matthew Hughes SF/mysteries,
and, ultimately, with the books of that other master of SF mysteries, Jack Vance.
-- Sci Fi Weekly
McDevitt is working familiar SF territory
--playing with effects of scale
-- but without the outsized heroic figures and shiny city-of-the-future movie sets of the pulps.
There is heroic action
(Chase in particular does some pretty snazzy stunt work
and comes in for some well-deserved lionizing by the end),
But it doesn't feel that way from inside the hero.
The big show, McDevitt seems to be saying, is Out There,
and we should remember that we're just playing the lounge.
--Locus
...Retains the author's ability to ground his speculative fiction in human nipulations,