Ballistic Kiss

James Stark, known as Sandman Slim, is back in Los Angeles. The war between warring angels goes on, but his own problem looks simpler: ghosts. Violent spirits have overrun the Little Cairo neighborhood, and Thomas Abbott is certain Stark is the one person who can find the cause and get rid of them.

Stark takes the Room of Thirteen Doors into the case. The trail may lead back to the 1970s and the unsolved murder of Chris Stein, a small-time actor. Stark starts digging into the cold case.

His private life pulls him sideways at the same time. Janet, a woman he saved during the High Plains Drifter zombie attack, has not lost her appetite for danger. She belongs to The Zero Lodge, a club whose motto promises there is zero chance of getting out alive. Its members chase thrills such as night walks through the LA Zoo with the deadliest animals uncaged.

Stark joins the Lodge to be near Janet. This is the next to last book in the Sandman Slim fantasy series, a fast, violent urban adventure. He has to link the Lodge to a missing angel last seen in a Hollywood porn palace. If the haunting spreads, it could swallow the city, and the fight in Heaven could drag on without him.