Book Review: Down and Out in Purgatory, by Tim Powers

Dude has himself killed so he can go kill the guy who killed his fantasy love again.

Subterranean Press, 2016, 120 pages

What do you do if the man you've vowed to kill dies before you can kill him?

In college, Tom Holbrook worshipped Shasta DiMaio from afar, but she married the arrogant John Atwater—and Atwater eventually murdered her.

All that's left for Tom is revenge. He has devoted the rest of his life to finding Atwater and killing him—but when he finally finds him, Atwater is in a bag in the Los Angeles County morgue.

How do you kill a man who has already died?

( An obsessive orbiter can't let go. )

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Also by Tim Powers: My review of The Anubis Gates.

My complete list of book reviews.