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The Bobby Dollar Books2012–2014 · urban / noir fantasy
A hard-boiled, profane urban fantasy: Bobby Dollar is an 'advocate angel' — a celestial defense attorney who argues Heaven's case for the souls of the newly dead. When souls start vanishing before judgment, a hidden 'Third Way' between Heaven and Hell drags him into a noir war between an upstairs that runs like a sclerotic government and a downstairs that runs like a ruthless corporation.
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subject · The Bobby Dollar Books · BBD · by Tad Williams
⟦THE BOBBY DOLLAR BOOKS:BBD:ffe621⟧
The Books
web-verified — US first editions
- The Dirty Streets of Heaven2012the vanishing soul, the Third Way
- Happy Hour in Hell2013Bobby goes downstairs
- Sleeping Late on Judgement Day2014the reckoning
The Roster — 7
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Bobby Dollar (Doloriel) — the advocate angel
An earthbound angel who argues Heaven's case for the newly dead — a flawed, wisecracking cog in a vast celestial bureaucracy.
Heaven & Hell, Inc. — the afterlife as paperwork
Every soul judged by an angel advocate, a demon prosecutor, and a neutral judge — Heaven a sclerotic government, Hell a ruthless corporation, both corrupt.
Sam (Sammariel) — the comrade
Bobby's best friend and fellow advocate — the war buddy at the heart of the conspiracy.
The Third Way — the souls that vanish
Souls disappearing before judgment expose a hidden 'third way' between Heaven and Hell — the mystery that drives the trilogy.
Casimira, the Countess of Cold Hands — the dangerous love
A beautiful, deadly demon who becomes Bobby's lover, held in Eligor's power.
Eligor the Horseman — the Grand Duke of Hell
A principal of Hell who controls Casimira and hunts Bobby across the series.
The Noir Afterlife — hard-boiled eternity
Williams pours Chandler-style noir into the cosmology — a profane, contemporary, detective's-eye view of the war between the upstairs and the downstairs.
“An angel with a private-eye's mouth, an afterlife run on paperwork and corruption, and a love affair across the great divide — Chandler in the war between Heaven and Hell.”
Catalogued, not owned. The Bobby Dollar Books and its world are © Tad Williams (and co-authors where noted); catalogued personifications under the DLW standard — render-not-invent, commentary not endorsement. Bibliography & rosters dual-agent web-verified.