All round conman Fast Eddie, or Jeremiah Brown, as the local villagers know him, receives a letter through the post from someone called Gary. Would he accept the proposition within the letter if he knew that Gary was the Devil?
Possibly...
Meanwhile, deep within the Vatican Library, skulduggery is afoot, as Botticelli's painting of Dante's Inferno is being removed... The mastermind behind the theft of the painting has two clients; Gary and mobster boss Don Caster. Both desire it, but surely only one can have it?
Gary leaves Hell in the incapable hands of his two untrustworthy demons, Adolph and Genghis, as he ventures 'up top' to collect the stolen piece of art. Not yet ready for collection, Gary lodges in the village pub, The Blind Cobbler's Thumb. There, a different type of Hell is ready to be unleashed on the unsuspecting fallen angel.
With ghosts aplenty and some very strange village folk, Gary goes on a rollercoaster ride through the dizzying bends and dips that is... Ashburn-on-Sinkhole.