Marius dos Hellespont and his apprentice, Gerd, are professional looters of battlefields. When they stumble upon the corpse of the King of Scorby and Gerd is killed, Marius is mistaken for the monarch by one of the dead soldiers, is transported down to the Kingdom of the Dead. The dead need a King--the King is God's representative, and someone needs to remind God where they are.
Marius is banished to the surface with one message: if he wants to recover his life he must find the dead a King. Which he fully intends to do. Just as soon as he stops running. - from Amazon.com
I wasn't too sure about this story when I picked it up. The plot sounds interesting enough, and the book took off quickly. Around the middle though, I felt it slowed down, and in my original thought, had started events that I saw no connection to what was happening/needed to happen for the story. Once near the end, it all came together, and though it felt sluggish in the middle, it picked back up. Not a bad read for a slow day.
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