A madcap adventure brimming with the ethical quandaries and sardonic wit of The Good Place delivered by World Fantasy Award-winning author K. J. Parker. Long ago, a wealthy man stole an angel and hid her in a chapel, where she remains imprisoned to this day. That’s the legend, anyway. A clerical student who’s racked up gambling debts to a local gangster is given an ultimatum ― deliver the angel his grandfather kidnapped, or forfeit various body parts in payment. And so begins a whirlwind theological paradox ― with the student at its center ― in which the stakes are the necessity of God, the existence of destiny ― and the nature of angels.
Publisher: Tordotcom (November 15, 2022) Pages: 144 pages ISBN-10: 1250835763 ISBN-13: 978-1250835765 ASIN: B09NJSVL1T
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AYAHaving worked in journalism, numismatics and the law, K. J. Parker now writes for a precarious living. He is the author of Devices and Desires, Evil for Evil, The Devil You Know, and other novels, and has won the World Fantasy Award twice. Parker also writes under the name Tom Holt.