Without question or hesitation. There are only two problems with that: First, he would eat you as well; second, he disappeared into a rift of space itself and is not expected back. Ever.

[That's what happens when you take on Bartimaeus. Because he... totally... planned to have Lovelace summon a higher being that would rend the very fabric of reality and create a suction that he could then trick Jabor into standing too close to, thus defeating him.]