Heaven and Hell
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| Title: | Heaven and Hell |
| Publisher: | Nut Hatch |
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| Author(s): | Jane of Australia |
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| Illustrator(s): | photos |
| Date(s): | 1996 |
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| Fandom: | Due South |
| Language: | English |
| External Links: | WayBack Archive link to publisher's page |
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Heaven and Hell is a 127-page (88,000 words) slash novel by Jane.
It was reprinted from Full Circle #5.
From the Flyer
Full of drama, humor, pathos, excitement, keen characterization and some hot, spicy bits! ... already getting raving reviews from the 'poor folks' dragooned in to proofread this 88,000 word monster ... Heaven and Hell is strictly for adults only and will not be supplied knowingly to persons under 18. Fair warning: this novel is built on a m/m, same sex relationship; please don't order if you will be offended. Double-fair warning: H&H is 'the dueSOUTH outtake' from Full Circle #5, so if you have ordered, or will be ordering FC5, you do not need to order the outtake too!
Summary
From the flyer:
When nightclub owner Vin Rossi makes a deal with the Chicago PD to keep himself out of prison, he gives evidence against a modern day Chicago mobster, a drug lord named Tonio Rinaldi – evidence that should put the man behind bars for life. But when the Police make the mistake of arresting Rinaldi, they touch off a small, brief but furious gangland war on the streets of Chicago ... and in any such confrontation innocent bystanders easily become casualties. It is on this of all days that Francesca Vecchio chooses to take a night ‘on the tiles,’ and she is headed for a club on the Southside called Gatsby’s. Vincenzo Rossi’s club ... just about to be hit in retribution by Rinaldi’s gunmen. The first Ray Vecchio knows of this is a phone call, telling him his sister is in Memorial Hospital with a head wound; she is in coma, and Ray’s Italian blood swiftly boils. He and Rossi and Rinaldi ran the same streets when they were children, but Ray became a cop while the others chose to work outside the law. Now, since justice is about to let him down one more time, Ray is determined to pursue an older and much more Italian tradition: Vendetta. Nothing Benton Fraser can say will deter him, so Fraser accompanies him, and the two find themselves in a life and death situation ... a scene that, this time, only Fraser will walk away from. Now, it’s Ray fighting for his life in the same hospital where his sister lies in coma; and when dawn comes, it is Ben Fraser who is about to take the law into his own hands, and bend the rules till they break. A fiery, desperate confrontation on an Illinois farm ... a fierce explosion that might be the end of Fraser’s whole career ... while Ray and Francesca Vecchio struggle just to survive, and Ben Fraser believes he has lost everything. For him, there is no way back, no way out. But just when you think all is lost and the night can’t get any darker, sometimes blind chance plays its part too, and ... Full of drama, humor, pathos, excitement, keen characterization and some hot, spicy bits! [1]
Reactions and Reviews
Despised, loathed and reviled this one. Seriously awful crap.[2]