Author(s): K. J. Parker

Sci-Fi Fantasy

Long ago, a wealthy man stole an angel and hid her in a chapel, where she remains imprisoned to this day.That's the legend, anyway.A clerical student who's racked up gambling debts to a local gangster is given an ultimatum--deliver the angel his grandfather kidnapped, or forfeit various body parts in payment.And so begins a whirlwind theological paradox--with the student at its center--in which the stakes are the necessity of God, the existence of destiny--and the nature of angels.