There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent. But Satan has his miracles to.
Chicago Homcide Detective Tom Murphy, who solved 92-percent of some 300 cases, is a Satan among detectives, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness। When his wife was diagnosed with cancer, he hit the bottle. When he buried her the next spring, he climbed into it. Administrative leave and psychological counseling came next, before he slipped up and killed someone or got himself killed.
About to be drummed out of the Chicago Police Department, he was suddenly reactivated to Homicide and assigned a Red Ball no less, the murder that matters। One of the Brass-Monkey's in the department either thinks the case can’t be solved or doesn’t want the case solved. When the shit hit’s the fan, they’re looking for a fall guy and washed up cops make the perfect fall guy.
Satanism, witchcraft, Catholicism, the church, drugs, sacrifices, Murphy confronts it all in his last and greatest case as he struggles to find out what is really going on in his city and put an end to it before the evil consumes the city of Chicago। What he uncovers reaches all the way to the upper echelons of the Vatican and a world-wide conspiracy to control the worlds economy.
The Red Ball by Kilburn Hall is his most personally revealing book to date. He lays bare the soul of Detective Tom Murphy as he goes in pursuit of the devil, and finds him a decent chap if a little misunderstood. The dark side, after all, stands side by side with the light, waiting for each of us personally to walk up and shake their hands.
