Chicago

The novel Afterlife is set primarily in the world as the reader knows it, focusing on the city of Chicago in the present day. In Chicago, there has been a recent spate of deaths by sniper and both the FBI and the local police departments are on the hunt for who is behind it.

The Echo

The Echo is the other world in the novel, the purgatory that all souls who died violently in some way go to. This world is very cutthroat and lawless.

The Langham Hotel

The Langham Hotel is the main base of operations for those in the echo world who do not want to be Eaters. The hotel is a safe zone, meaning that there are patrols and rules in the hotel: one, pull your weight and two, do not eat people. As a result the hotel is the only place that is really...