The Perdition Score

James Stark, known as Sandman Slim, has spent a few months trying to live a normal life after a close brush with Death and with the one who killed him. It isn't working. When Thomas Abbot, the Augur of the Sub Rosa council, asks for help, Stark is ready.

Abbot wants Stark and Candy to find a missing young boy. The job also means identifying council members who may be tied to Wormwood's power brokers.

The plan falls apart when Stark meets a dying angel. The angel hands him a vial of black liquid that could serve as a secret weapon in the angel war. On one side are angels who want human souls admitted to Heaven. On the other are rebel angels prepared to die to keep them out.

Then one of Stark's closest friends is poisoned with the black liquid. The only place a cure might exist is Hell, so Stark and Candy go down.

The damned souls who still work for Wormwood block their way. They have made a secret deal with the rebel angels, and it is darker than anything Stark has faced. Stark must break the stalemate, win the cure, and get back to LA, where an old enemy is waiting to finish him. The urban fantasy runs on action and a dark, wry hero.