This is a mixed genre book set in England of the very near future. In this book not only is there widespread proof of life after death but all sorts of previously unbelievable creatures-vampires, ghosts, werewolves, demons etc are found to exist and taken in stride by humanity.
The book's protagonist is Felix Castor, a man who's had the ability to see and talk to the dead since childhood. It's only in the past decade that he's been making a living as an exorcist.
Of course working as an exorcist you tend to make a lot of enemies with unnaturally long memories so Castor decides to get out of the game but not before taking One Last Job.
This leads to all sorts of unpleasantness as might be expected. This is really an updated detective novel with supernatural events thrown in and is a lot of fun. It comes complete with mob bosses, damsels in distress, femme fatales and all sorts of other typical genre cliches. Despite all this, or perhaps because of it, it's a fun read with great characters and more than a few surprises along the way.
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives." Winter is Coming Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
