Changes

Evil is vanquishing good. And Stewart isn't having it. He turns down angelhood and joins the Observers, a secret service (I was going to say spook-y, but that would just confuse the issue) type of organisation. Stewart has no intention of being tied by Heaven's non-intervention policy in his mission to defeat Satan. But he and his girlfriend are about to find that they've taken on even more than they had imagined. There's an afterlife conspiracy afoot and Stewart is going to have to solve that one, too...

You could just take the book at face value and enjoy the fully-fleshed cast of characters, the dark comedy and the gloss of the plot. I liked the plain talking Layla, who tells it just as she sees it. And of course Franklin, the snobby British demon. I don't care who won the Revolutionary War - American War of Indpendence this side of the pond, by the way - a posh demon with a plum in his mouth just has to be British. Loved Franklin. Very funny. Once engaged with the cast, it's easy to enjoy Stewart's attempts to show that the end will justify the means. And the depiction of hell as a corporation with dodgy sales techniques and stultifying bureaucracy remains as fresh and as funny as ever.