Ghostkiller - Marc Vun Kannon

[Marc]

John Smith rescues the dead, saving them from an eternity as powerless shades. He kills ghosts, adding their life force to his own meager supply, and sends the naked souls on to where they should have gone in the first place. He is the first of his kind, the oldest, the best, but that comes with a price. He has no other family, no other friends. He’s done a lot but forgotten more, and life has a way of reminding him he hasn’t seen it all.
Like today. A friend murdered, his ghost is haunting John and weakening rapidly. To save the ghost John needs the body, which is prowling around the city somewhere, mindlessly killing every living thing it touches, and even more toxic to Ghostkillers. A virus waiting to spread.
Fortunately John has human allies to capture the body, risking their lives so he doesn’t have to risk his soul. He has enough to deal with, when a medium discovers the presence of an evil spirit at the crime scene, and he follows that lead into disaster, as the spirit and the body are in the same place. But his allies have tracked the body, and they corner the body, just in time to…
…Watch it become possessed by the evil spirit, with powers of pain to go with the body’s deadly touch?
…Hear it grind out the word ‘kill’ while staring at John Smith?
…Know to the bottom of their souls that John will be only the first to be damned?
Definitely not one of his better days.

[Marc]

I've never posted one of these before, so I hope I did it right. Just in case I didn't, here is the link for Ghostkiller. It's very much not in the standard model - I invented a story structure in the process of writing it - so please ask any question you like.