Its a surreal smuggling operation across the boundaries of life and death in the latest moody mystery from award-winning graphic novelists Peter & Maria Hoey.The Afterlife is just as the ancient Greeks imagined: an endless twilight where time stands still in perpetuity and shades have nowhere to go. For Jim, that means long shifts at a gas station, with only crossword puzzles and cigarettes to break the tedium.One day, two criminal shades from Jims past come to collect a debt. Theyve tracked him down for something he didnt know he had: the ability to cross back into the living world. Its a rare gift, and they intend to exploit it.During Jims first crossing back into sunny California, he meets Olivia, who is dying on an Echo Park sidewalk. Pulling her back from the edge of death, he strikes a connection that will run deeper than either can imagine.Jim weaves back and forth between the Afterlife and Los Angeles, desperately trying to evade the criminals