A smart, kick-arse Urban Fantasy from a fresh master of the genre. THE PERDITION Rating is the 8th book in the fantastic Sandman Slim series.

Sandman Slim comes back in a stunning, high-octane thriller filled with the intense kick-ass action and inventive fantasy that are the hallmarks of NY Moments bestselling author Richard Kadrey.

The request from Thomas Abbot, the Augur of the Sub Rosa council, couldn’t come at a better time for Adam Stark, aka Sandman Slim. For a about The Perdition Rating man who’s lately fulfilled Death-and death’s killer-a couple of months of regular life is more than he can handle. He requires a small action, and today Abbott wants Stark and Chocolate to investigate the disappearance of a boy-and help uncover council members who might be tied to Wormwood’s power agents.

Stark’s plans change when he meets a dying angel who also gives him a vial of a mysterious dark liquid that could be a secret weapon in the ongoing battle between angels who want to allow human souls into Heaven and rebel angels willing to die to hold them out. When among Stark’s closest close friends is poisoned with the dark water, Stark and Candy have to go directly to the just place where they might find a treatment: Hell.

But standing in their way will be the damned souls who, even after loss of life, still work for Wormwood. The secret deal they’ve struck with the rebel angels can be darker than anything Stark has encountered. Not merely does the destiny of the globe hang in the balance, but also the souls of everybody in it. Stark has to find a way to break the stalemate in the angel battle, score the Perdition cure for the dark poison, and make it back again to LA in one piece-where an old enemy waits to finish him once and for all.