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It's a bad time for unfinished business to come back and haunt him, forcing Daniel Faust to confront his tortured history and the family he left behind. It's an even worse time for his surviving foes to join forces and take deadly aim at Faust's throne. Toss in a syndicate operative from a parallel world, a deranged, half-demon assassin hungry for a duel, and the shadowy machinations of the King of Worms, and the stage is set for a showdown under the neon lights of Vegas.

The first story ever told left a scar on the skin of the universe, with its characters doomed to an endless cycle of reincarnation and death. Trapped by his enemies, Daniel Faust - magician, mobster, and newly-minted knight of hell - has been cast in the role of the eternal Thief. Now, the story is dead-set on writing his final chapter, the one that ends with a knife in his back. The curse can’t be broken without tracking down the original Thief. The truth is buried beneath the legacy of a long-dead stage magician and a cache of occult relics from the 1940s.

Daniel Faust is back from hell and out for blood. He has a new face and a deadly mission: to find the tiger-queen Naavarasi and his own traitorous brother, and put them both six feet underground. But when Naavarasi’s shape-shifting minions abduct one of Daniel’s own, it’s time for a desperate rescue. With his demonic lover Caitlin and his precocious apprentice Melanie, he follows a thread of nonexistent airlines, ghostly packages, and urban legends all the way to Springfield, a small town with big secrets.

Am Flughafen Düsseldorf wird der Bankkaufmann Gert Anderson Zeuge einer Schießerei. Es gelingt ihm, eine junge Frau aus der Gewalt zweier Männer zu befreien. Sie ist die Sekretärin eines Großindustriellen. Maria und ihr Retter kommen sich rasch näher, doch auch wenn er den ersten Mordversuch verhindern konnte, wird Maria am darauffolgenden Morgen tot im Treppenhaus gefunden. Die Polizei glaubt an einen Unfall, aber Anderson weiß es besser. Schon bald ist sein eigenes Leben in Gefahr.

When Gilgamesh Young loses one of his best friends to police violence, he finds himself having a hard time coping with the trauma and the memories of that fateful night. He turns to his boyfriend, Trap, for comfort, who suggests that getting high off Dramamine will be just what Gilgamesh needs to clear his head. During the high, Gilgamesh plays with an Ouija board and summons a demon that decides it doesn't want to go away.