The damned, the dirty and the depraved call the confines of inner-city hell home. It's a thriving nucleus of spiritual activity: neon temples with video preachers, street-corner messiahs and coin- fed confession machines, ghetto prophets, whiskey evangelists and vendors selling salvation in a box. Jake Strait has always placed his faith in the devil. But when a gorgeous blond angel hires him to infiltrate a religious sect and locate her twin sister, he decides to give a new and improved god a try. Hired to turn the sect's team of bumbling soldiers into a hit squad, he plans to lead the attack against the city's criminal subculture. BUT WHEN THE ROBES OF SPIRITUAL RIGHTEOUSNESS FALL AWAY TO REVEAL A WILD-EYED PROPHET ON THE MAKE, JAKE's GOT TO PAWN HIS TICKET TO PARADISE AND GET HIS CONSCIENCE OUT OF HOCK.
I must say I am a great fan of the series and I hesitantly give this book 5 stars since it didn't resonate with me as much as the previous 2 books. However, you still get to witness the solid action of Jake Strait, who's hard drinking and amazing action is a mere sideshow to his own personal discoveries. It does skew to a more mystic side then the previous books, however the ideas of relgion it presents are simple a must read to those who are a fan of the human condition. Of course you don't have to read the previous two books, but you would certainly be missing out on a segment of the plot, but more importantly on the moral history of the man himself, Jack Strait. Thank you.
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