Infernal Angel

A TOUR OF HELL Hell has become a sprawling metropolis where evil translates into order and monsters mate with the damned. Here Golems stand watch in smoking alleys, while gargoyles prowl the ledges of mile-high skyscrapers made of pulverized bone. Horror is harnessed as energy, and atrocity, torture, and murder are public law. And now Satan has discovered a method to bring little bits of his demented city to earth. Cassie is the only woman in the world who has the power to enter this unspeakable domain. Will she succeed in foiling the most diabolical plot of all time? Or will she fail and be damned forever in the never-ending streets of the city of Hell?

From Publishers Weekly

In this sequel to (which reads like an inferior rewrite of) Lee's previous novel about a technologically driven hell, City Infernal (2001), goth chick Cassie Heydon is still an "Etheress" looking for her twin sister, a suicide. She's aided this time by an angel, Angelese, and by Walter, a dorky A student and "Etherean" who's goggle-eyed over a blonde now resident in Lucifer's capital city, Mephistopolis. Lucifer himself resides on the top floor of a 666-story skyscraper, plotting to take over the universe. He has a time-traveling device and a "Hex-Clone" of Jesus, whom he plans to bring back to that famous cave to nip Christianity in the bud. The puns are less frequent this time, too much of the action is set outside Lucifer's city and the story is hysterically scattershot. Still, there are laughs for the patient. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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