The Dirty Streets of Heaven — Tad Williams

This modern urban fantasy is the start of a wild roller coaster ride that takes you from a fictitious town in modern-day California on a pell-mell trip straight through the gates of Heaven and Hell.

Bobby Dollar is an angel -- a real one. He knows a lot about sin, and not just in his professional capacity as an advocate for souls caught between Heaven and Hell. Bobby's wrestling with a few deadly sins of his own -- pride, anger, even lust.

But his problems aren't all his fault. Bobby can't entirely trust his heavenly superiors and he's not too sure about any of his fellow earthbound angels, either. And he sure as hell doesn't trust the achingly gorgeous Countess of Cold Hands, a mysterious she-demon who seems to be the only one willing to tell him the truth.

When the souls of the recently departed start disappearing, catching both Heaven and Hell by surprise, things get bad very quickly for Bobby D. End-of-the-world bad. Beast of Revelations bad.

You've never met an angel like Bobby Dollar. And you've never read anything like THE DIRTY STREETS OF HEAVEN.

Brace yourself -- the afterlife is weirder than you ever believed!