I will admit. It took me a while to get into this book because it was different from the average Joe Grey book, but I was soon really, REALLY, looking forward to the next book. ( )

I like cats, and ghost cats are a fun idea, but this book was disappointing. The plot was too disjointed, and if the ghost cat wasn't there to assert that Lee Fontana and Morgan are linked by fate somehow, really there was no link between those two men or stories. Sure, Lee dreams of Morgan's daughter, and the daughter dreams of Lee, but these dreams have no tangible consequences in either character's story. The cat is similarly ineffective, always there but never really influencing the trajectory of the story. Lee breaks his parole and goes back to prison, as he planned, Morgan is set up by his childhood acquaintance Fanon, as Fanon planned, nothing unexpected happens, and I am not sure what the point was of the dreams or the cat or the devil character, except as fluff to try unsuccessfully to add mystery to a boring story. ( )

I was disappointed with this book. There were many parts that were drawn out and just plain boring not to mention the book isn't a complete novel. I have to get the next one to find out what happens- ugh. I don't think there is enough story for two books! ( )

This imaginative tale finds the devil tempting about-to-be-paroled Lee Fontana with the promise of a successful heist despite the man’s resolve to live an honest life once he is released from prison where he’s served time for robbing trains. But get-rich-quick schemes seem to pop up all around Lee, complicating his shaky resolve.
Help comes in the form of the prison cat Misto, a yellow tabby-ghost cat, who is determined to help Lee walk the straight and narrow and deny the devil his victory.

Readers who have enjoyed the author’s Joel Grey mystery stories may be disappointed to find that the spinning out of this tale focuses more on the not-particularly-likeable Lee Fontana than on the tabby-ghost cat; the gratuitous swearing and the non-ending end of the story are elements that many are likely to find particularly disconcerting.

The story’s charm, however, lies in the tabby-ghost cat’s efforts to help the man he knew as a boy and in its good-versus-evil plot. ( )