No man can conquer Hell and Heaven alone. With the help of his friends Ernest Hemingway, Nettie, and Essie—plus a whole army of kids and an ancient Aztec god—Jude might just stand a chance to change the system of the afterlife. But will the toppling of the current regime simply be replaced by one just as bureaucratic and unfeeling? And what happens when betrayal comes not from above or below, but from one of their own?