From the breakup of the romance he hoped would redeem his soul, John Constantine joins the ranks of London's homeless, meeting a vicious vampire cult and revisiting the scene of one of his earliest encounters with dark magic.
A gone-to-seed John Constantine confronts the ghosts of his past as he is stalked by a vampire who has hunted the Constantine family for generations, recalls the terrible fate of a friend whose lover summoned a demon, and climbs back to respectability (or at least John's most reasonable facsimile) once more. Plus, John's ex-girlfriend, Kit, returns to England; and Constantine settles a score left over from his teen years.