After surviving confrontations with demons, elementals, cultists and serial killers, john constantine now faces the one enemy he can"t outrun or outwit - his own malfunctioning flesh. Decades of chain smoking have taken their inevitable toll, and constantine"s tortured lungs have blossomed into malignancy. the diagnosis is clear and inescapable: terminal, inoperable cancer. the world"s greatest magician has, at the most, two months left before his body gives up the ghost, and he knows exactly what will happen after that. the ruler of Hell has some very special plans for the soul of John Constantine-and eternity itself may not be enough time to undertake all of the tortures he is readying.