Kill All Angels

Two timelines meet in Los Angeles, the city where both halves of the book play out. In the early eighties, Carey and Randall arrive in a punk scene that is bound up with Chinatown.

A young woman with silver hair runs things there as an Empty One. Her former lover Zang, also an Empty One, has turned against his own side for private reasons.

In the present day, Kaitlyn's powers keep growing. The visions that come with them may show her how to destroy the angels for good. The catch is that she cannot test the idea without a live angel to work on.

Los Angeles is the only place she knows to search, so the earlier story and the present-day one pull toward the same streets.

The book closes the Vicious Circuit trilogy. Its settings run from punk clubs and sunken suburbs to Chinatown, with something huge moving in the water offshore. The jokes keep coming to the last page, and so does the body count.