Death Tax

Matthew Carver has no soul, and he wants it back. His sister's soul is also in trouble: a fragment of it sits in the Devil's grasp. Death Tax follows Matt as he works to recover what was taken before his time runs out.

Lazarus and his mysterious corporation have a plan to get the fragment out. It requires something Matt has dodged for the whole series. He has to die, at least for a while, and then find his way back.

The job is a heist, with the Underworld as the vault. Matt must travel down to its depths and return alive before the clock on his own life expires.

The book continues The Debt Collection series in the urban fantasy genre, so it picks up an existing quest instead of starting a new one. Matt narrates with a smart mouth, and the wisecracks keep coming even as the stakes reach the afterlife. The question it turns on is whether a man without a soul can come back from death with his sister's fragment in hand.