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Allan Carpenter, now free from the infernal realm, cannot escape memories of the countless souls he once saw tormented within Hell’s prisons. Desperate to right the wrongs inflicted upon those unfairly condemned, he seeks out Sylvia Plath, a poet who has suffered her own tragic fall. Together they plot a perilous return to the abyss, determined to rescue the damned and restore a fragment of humanity to the ruined after‑life.
First publish date: 2009
Genre: Suspense/Supernatural Suspense
Authors: Larry Niven
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