It starts off so simply: Jack, still feeling down after the tragic
events of Infernal, is hanging in Julio's when a regular named Timmy
asks him for help. His teenage niece has been missing since this
morning; the police say it's too early to worry, but Timmy knows
something bad has happened. Jack says he'll put the word out on the
street. This innocent request triggers a chain of seemingly coincidental
events that lead Jack into the darkest days of his life. As has become
evident in the series, Jack has been singled out, unwillingly, as the
champion of one of the two supernatural forces contending for control of
all human life on Earth. Neither of these forces are good or evil, just
dangerous and amoral. They value and notice individual humans about as
much as we do mosquitoes. Jack is desperate . . . and the last thing you
want to do is make Jack desperate. That's when things begin to blow up
and people begin to die. A hang-onto-your-hat-and-heart thriller of
triumph and tragedy that barrels along at F. Paul Wilson's trademark
breakneck pace.