As fate would have it, Toby O'Dar, a New Orleans teenager with a passion for music and playing the lute, becomes a hitman. For ten years he has been carrying out delicate assignments for state secret structures, and one day it so happens that after another murder he discovers a witness next to him. Moreover, the witness is not one that can be gotten rid of in Toby’s usual way. This is an angel, and, to the surprise of the professional killer, the heavenly guest invites Toby to enter the service of higher powers in exchange for atonement for his sins. The first task for the newly minted agent is to go to England in the 13th century with a secret mission on which the outcome of the eternal struggle between God and His enemy the devil depends. A new novel from the author of the famous “Vampire Chronicles” is published in Russian for the first time.