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James Straley might think his life is cursed, but it doesn't compare to what lies ahead of him on life's highway. He's on the run with the proceeds of a botched bank robbery. It's all he has. His crew is dead and his getaway car just died on him. He's on foot with the cash when he comes across a two-car pileup. There's no saving the drivers, but he can save himself by stealing one of the wrecked cars. Unfortunately, he boosts the wrong set of wheels.

Welcome back to Glen Hirshberg country, where griefs are at least as dangerous as ghosts. Where terror and wonder become not just inextricable but often indistinguishable. Where the worlds of imagination and everyday reality color and corrode and sometimes overwhelm each other.

What if surging gun violence, racial tension and distrust of law enforcement was by design? What if the rage and disenchantment of working class Americans was stoked by politicians? What if neighbors were urged to despise neighbors because of their differences? When a national house divided is scripted and staged, the looming future begins to look like an unspeakable past.

Jim Beard's original occult investigator, Sgt. Roman Janus, returns in a second all-new collection of suspenseful adventures. Or does he? At the end of the first book, Sgt. Janus: Spirit Breaker, our intrepid hero mysteriously vanished into another realm never to be seen again. Now, almost a full year later, a dark-haired beauty, with no memory of her own identity, suddenly appears and begins assuming Janus' role in seeking out troublesome poltergeist and laying them to rest.

Der Dämon Janus soll John töten. Er versichert sich der Mithilfe des Gangsterbosses Alex Tarras, doch dessen Killer versagen. In Tarras' Vergnügungspalast London Contact kommt es zum Kampf zwischen Janus, der seinen Kopf um 180 Grad drehen kann und dessen zweites Gesicht Menschen tötet. John tötet Janus mit einem Trick, aber der Vergnügungspalast wird plötzlich in eine andere Dimension befördert.

Die erfolgreichsten Folgen der Hörspielserie um den sympathischen Geisterjäger von Scotland Yard erhalten eine neue Veredelung: Regisseur und Produzent Oliver Döring hat sich den Anfangsfolgen der Reihe nochmals angenommen und sie mit neuer Musik und mit neuen haarsträubenden Schock-Effekten versehen. Das ist echte Gänsehaut-Garantie!