Heaven and Hell? Damnation and Salvation? In the end, it doesn't matter how you live: it only matters where you die. A dark, theological fantasy, The Fifth Horseman follows a deeply flawed young man, Emil LaFey, from the wreckage of his personal life into the realms of the Diabolical, the Divine, the Don't-Give-A-Damn, and back again. For Emil it's been six months since the untimely demise of all aboard flight BA0359, but in the Land of the Living it's been less than four weeks. Having bid farewell to the Realms and returned to world he calls home he knows he's being watched - even if he's not quite sure by whom exactly - and is finally coming to truly understood that everything real really is an illusion. Meanwhile, someone else is learning that even in Paradise serpents still slither.