But his new real-life nemesis may be too powerful for Victor to defeat. A Goliath in chestnut top-siders, Pierce Stone wields a weapon more powerful than any battle-ax or broadsword. And Victor soon learns that at his new school, kids like Pierce Stone fight with words. Victor's smattering of Itanglish might not be enough to take on his new enemy, but his obsession with Hell might just save him yet.

Follow Victor, from his impressionable childhood to the formidable years of high school, on his search for Hell--his own ordained quest for the Holy Grail, woven throughout his life like a thread of darkness.