The Perdition Score: A Sandman Slim Novel
Kadrey RichardPerdition Score (Sandman Slim #8)
The request
from Thomas Abbot, the Augur of the Sub Rosa council, couldn’t come at a better
time for James Stark, aka Sandman Slim. For a man who’s most recently met Death
— and death’s killer — a few months of normal life is more than he can handle.
He needs a little action, and now Abbott wants Stark and Candy to investigate
the disappearance of a young boy — and help uncover council members who might
be tied to Wormwood’s power brokers.
Stark’s plans change when he meets a dying angel who gives him a vial of a
mysterious black liquid that could be a secret weapon in the ongoing war
between angels who want to allow human souls into Heaven and rebel angels
willing to die to keep them out. When one of Stark’s closest friends is
poisoned with the black liquid, Stark and Candy have to go to the only place
where they might find a cure: Hell.
But standing in their way are the damned souls who, even after death, still
work for Wormwood. The secret deal they’ve struck with the rebel angels is
darker than anything Stark has encountered. Not only does the fate of the world
hang in the balance, but also the souls of everyone in it. Stark has to find a
way to break the stalemate in the angel war, score the Perdition cure for the
black poison, and make it back to LA in one piece—where an old enemy waits to
finish him once and for all.