Publisher's Synopsis
A Chicago native and kind, gentle man living in Chicago on his way home from work on a late Friday night subway train gets robbed and killed. He wakes up from death to find himself in heaven where he meets Michael the Archangel of war. Michael asked him to go back to earth as an angel in his army of angels sent around the world to wage a war on crime. Man's dirty war's that bring human indignity, human injustices and death around the world. John Griswall is his name and this is his story is true to fact as I know it. John becomes an angel of death in Michael's army. He wants to do his part in saving the world. Save his beloved family he left behind from God's wrath of Armageddon if the angels fail to make a difference. John goes back to Chicago and fights crime and the injustices of humans and by on other humans. He goes around the city of Chicago killing sinful criminals, sending their souls to hell. The police think there is a vigilante killer lose in the city. He does not discriminate in picking his criminal victims, picking from a range of petty thieves, murders, rapists, mob bosses, politicians and dirty cops. The manhunt is on for a serial killer. Wherever he goes and whoever he kills he leaves his calling card. A death card found on the body only he can leave, sending out the word it was him and only him bringing death to all criminals who cross his path. A team of hard-nosed veteran detectives tries to find and stop this vigilante only to find out he is a real angel. What are you going to do"? You can't kill him or imprison him. Chicago is forced to come to terms with this new lawman or should I say "Law angel" in town and learns to live with him and a new Chicago because he's here to stay. Detective Sargent Christy Evans who leads her team of homicide detectives are hot on his trail. They continue mopping up the carnage of dead bodies after each of the murders hoping to get one step closer to him and stopping this vigilante killer. After some very intense investigations and a dozen murders later, Detective Evans and some cops think this is a real angel that's come to earth and is doing all the killing. No human has the super human strength to do what this angel does in his methods of killing. Detective Evans is willing to follow him into the pits of hell if that's what it takes to catch him and ask him why? "Why now and who is next is the most important questions Christy is willing to risk her own life to find out the answers. Detective Evans faces opposition and conflict from those who do not believe in angels and demons or heaven and hell. Some people believe in such things and some do not, which causes her great turmoil in her own ranks. She has to make believers out of the peers she must answer to. As John does his duty and the body count starts climbing, humans are forced to face the hard truths about themselves and this one lone vigilante angel loose in the city. They are forced to praise him or hate him. Learn to live with him or face what's coming if he fails. Join him or die, you're given a choice to repent or burn in the fiery pits of hell condemning your soul forever. Criminals have had a foothold in Chicago since Chicago was born and not willing to give up their city without a fight. They are willing to gamble for the city or die by his hands. Even Chicago's finest, the protectors of the people, as in the politicians, state and federal both, with the Chicago police departments are forced to change their way of doing business or face John's wrath. Chicago is forced to come to terms with this new lawman or should I say "Law angel" in town and learns to live with him and a new Chicago because he's here to stay. The choice is yours as I tell John's story about the day an Angel came to Chicago.