Summoned to modern Montreal by a supernatural force, the creature that has engaged in identity theft and masquerades as the bibliophile Grigor Kasday discovers it can now longer restrain the savage power it long held in check. Hounded along the road to New York by Nergals Naphidim and by the most diabolical special agent from Hell of them all, Kasday has to go on the run, carry out his revenge and find himself a new body. Kurjaks strikes him as the one most suited to his purpose Luckily, Harlan Draka and Anyel, the Amesha, are also on the tracks of the rebel angel