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A package from Dean Seagrave has arrived in James Robert Baker's mailbox. Baker was expecting a bootleg of the Bad Religion show at the Palace. But instead of Bad Religion he got bad religion: Palo Mayombe, to be exact.
Seagrave, it seems, has spent the day tooling around Los Angeles in a rental car with a hand-held tape recorder, searching for his sexy ex-lover Pablo Ortega, who went out one night for cigarettes and never came back. The police are on Dean's trail for assaulting an old woman outside a grocery store, or so he has been told by the man in a wheelchair he attacked at Venice Beach.
Seagrave explains his frenzied quest by saying he believes Pablo is ‘an emotional serial killer.' Every stop on the trail brings to light more disturbing information about Pablo Ortega. Pablo, it turns out, is into Palo Mayombe, an ultraviolent form of Santeria involving animal and possible human sacrifice. Pablo may even have been involved in government-sanctioned torture in his native Chile. Furthermore, Pablo has placed a curse on Dean Seagrave—a curse that can be broken only through a ritual involving the severed head of Pablo.
The problem is, Dean might be crazy. Or everyone might be lying.
Either way, Dean has a machete—because the chainsaw was too loud—and he's just found Pablo.
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