After the riveting events of Once Dead , Jack "Ripper" Gregory remains host to a homicidal alien bound to his soul. Now Jack has been hired for a suicide mission: journey to South America and rescue an imprisoned shaman. One problem...both the National Security Agency and a gang of neo-fascists are hot on his trail. Neither group plans to let Jack live. At stake is the immeasurably powerful Sun Staff, an ancient alien artifact that in the wrong hands...