"Hell's bein' outsourced!" Eustice Seeney discovered when he opened the first letter from Hades. Satan's about to lose his job as ruler of the underworld. The Powers that Be deemed that Hell is just not awful enough, and the Prince of Darkness has been slacking off in his devilish duties. He let a human escape! They're going to bring in aliens with horrors mankind has never seen. Lucifer doesn't want to get the boot, and knows he can make Hell more Hellish. He must find out how Eustice Seeney, the man who died twice, managed to escape. The Powers allow the Devil one chance to make things right in that wrong sort of way. Satan corresponds with Seeney, and arranges a trip to earth reminding him that: "The devil you know is better than the one you don't."