[Lee Fontana 02] • The Cat, the Devil, the Last Escape

In this sequel to The Cat, the Devil, and Lee Fontana , Lee Fontana is back in prison after a successful switch-and-bait robbery. A few mouths and the old convict will be out, free to dig up the treasure and skip the country.

Or will he? With the devil planning revenge against Lee for a three-generation vendetta, only the ghost cat sees the full picture, the big golden tomcat who travels with Lee, who can appear or disappear as he pleases--a cat of love and wit with his own fierce desire for revenge against the wrongs of the world.

When Satan snares not only Lee but a little child across the country with whom Lee has an unknown connection, Lucifer means to estroy them both. The child’s prescient dreams, her predictive powers, enrage the devil. To hurt her, he sees that her father, Morgan Blake, is falsely imprisoned, framed by a sleazy killer who is also connected to Lee. When both Lee and Morgan end up in the Atlanta Pen, the little girl’s prophetic dreams turn violent, terrifying her. The ghost cat comforts her--and he fights beside Lee as the two convicts plan a nearly impossible escape to right a wrong, to defeat Satan’s plan of destruction. A magical tale from the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of the Joe Grey feline mysteries, Shirley Rousseau Murphy, written with her husband Pat J. J. Murphy.