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After the events of the first two books of the Vicious Circle series, Carey and Randall reached LA during the early '80s punk scene, which was heavily mixed up with Chinatown. A young Chinese girl with silver hair is the Empty One that seems to run things there, and her ex-lover, an Empty One named Zang, has apparently turned against them and may or may not be on Carey's side.

"This is a job to die for," they said. Little did he know. Our guide takes us to the great beyond and tells us about his experiences with the sexy angels and horny devils.

IRS agent turned PI Mortimer Angel is relaxing in a hole-in-the-wall bar in a Reno casino when an attractive young girl hires him to find out who left her a cryptic message demanding a million dollars. At the girl’s house, Mort finds the body of missing rapper Jonnie Xenon - Jo-X to his legions of fans - hanging from the rafters with two bullet holes in him. Mort is shocked when he learns the identity of the girl’s father - and even more shocked when the father hires him to investigate the murder.

The Devil might be the greatest liar of all time...but which lies are his? A man named Jesus wanders the earth, from the U.S.A. to Egypt, from the Middle East to South America, desperate to discover who he really is. The archangels would see Jesus dead for his name alone, but he's only mortal...isn't he? In a life defined by the insanity of the world around him, the man named Jesus has only one friend...that friend has many faces, but only one true name - Abbadon. Armageddon approaches, and not all revelations are welcome.

For nine long days, the mayor and district attorney of Reno, Nevada, have been missing. Vanished without a trace. Their vehicles were found parked side-by-side at Reno-Tahoe International Airport. Did they fly somewhere together? They aren't on any flight manifest. Did the two of them take off with a big pile of the city's money? If so, the city accountants can't find it. Were they murdered? There's no sign of foul play.

Was? Ich soll was über das Hörbuch erzählen? Ist das nicht die Aufgabe des Autors? Fauler Sack! Also gut, wenn du willst, dass etwas ordentlich erledigt wird, musst du's halt selber machen. Na dann! Mein Name ist Tazzaleth und in dem Hörbuch geht's... na ja, hauptsächlich um mich. Ich bin ein Dämon aus der Hölle, aber da unten gab's vor einiger Zeit ein bisschen Ärger und... tja, seitdem bin ich auf der Erde unterwegs, um genau zu sein, in Los Angeles. Eigentlich habe ich es mir hier ganz gemütlich eingerichtet, aber dann bricht auf einen Schlag das totale Chaos aus.

TENTAKELMONSTER GREIFT LOS ANGELES AN! Wäre das nicht eine hübsche Schlagzeile für ein Boulevardblättchen? Ist aber wirklich passiert. Kein Scheiß! Ich war dabei. Mein Name ist Caliriel - meine irdischen Freunde nennen mich meist Clyde - und ich bin ein Engel. Ein Schutzengel, um genau zu sein. Und als solcher kann ich natürlich nicht zulassen, dass übernatürliche Ungeheuer ungestraft meine Heimatstadt heimsuchen. Also trommele ich ein paar Leute zusammen und jage die Viecher dahin zurück, wo auch immer sie hergekommen sind. So habe ich mir das zumindest vorgestellt.

In the style of Dashiell Hammett, ex-IRS agent turned gumshoe-in-training Mortimer Angel is approached by a beautiful hooker, Holiday, in a casino bar in Reno. Mort first met Holiday two months ago, but now learns that she's not really a hooker. She's a college engineering student, searching for her younger sister, Allie, who disappeared three months ago. Having seen Mort in the news, Holiday knows he's a PI who finds missing persons.

This book makes fun of the ridiculous people who haunt our lives like politicians, businessmen and bent lawyers who get their just deserts. Sometimes a bit sexy but not lurid, these humorous tales told by ghosts are about how they got revenge on the people who deserved it; well, most of the time.