Spawn, Volume 8: Betrayal of Blood

SPAWN unknowingly reinforces a little boy's belief in Christmas and later becomes the victim of a pious zealot whose twisted beliefs lead him down a perverted path. Elsewhere, an uncontrollable cybernetic simian experiment has escaped and wreaks havoc in the countryside as his investors frantically try to recapture him before his true purpose can be discovered. Intertwined with this complex story, two police detectives investigate their police chief's covert ties to several government agencies and his role in some unexplained deaths.