The great Noir-ior Stagger Li continues his descent into the lower hells to rescue two small children held as hostage. In doing so, he has to face all Hell's fiends (as we all do at one time or another).
As my friend Brad pointed out to me last evening, Stagger Li has an edge in his Hell journey, in that his parents were powerful beings whose love wallow (in which Stagger Li was conceived) created the Everglades. So true. And yet the sheathing of this edge is forced, and its advantage counterbalanced, by the suffering of the two captured children in direct co-relation with the extent of Stagger Li's violence. He has to deal with the insanely demonic in a nonviolent way.
Viola Trumpett, the spiritual criminologist, is not far behind him in this attempted child rescue. She has no edge, being thoroughly human, and no edge may be the most powerful edge of all.
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