Forget Hell, this is Gehenna. You die, you're damned and then you wake up here, but that's not the worst part. If you don't redeem, or die the second and final death, you slowly turn into a demon—a vampire--and then you really do belong in hell. But, even Hell has its crackpots. Supremacy cults advocating an all-human buffet have been popping up since time immemorial, and have always faded away just as fast, until now. A perfect demon, an unheard of phenomenon, has the old quarter in his thrall. Michael Thane is under no illusions; he's being used on the premise of 'to catch a killer, use a killer', with his wife as bait all over again.