Louis Agnello, the author behind the spiritual thriller “The Devil’s Glove,” will share insight into his “PG-13-rated morality tale” at a book signing this week at Signs of Life.

Agnello will sign copies, read a few select chapters and answer questions at the book store, 722 Massachusetts St., from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesday.

Louis Agnello

“The Devil’s Glove” tells the story of a cursed baseball glove sent by the devil to exact revenge on God for throwing him out of Heaven. The glove’s first owner — an aging, disillusioned baseball player who makes a deal with the devil in order to play in the major leagues — sells his soul to achieve his dreams. More than 50 years later, the glove finds a new victim to torment.

The book is more than a treatise on good versus evil, Agnello says. At its core, “The Devil’s Glove” is a condemnation of the pursuit of fame and glory.

“It’s a cautionary tale about the dangers of chasing illusions, the dangers of cutting corners, the dangers of cheating,” says Agnello, who writes under the nickname “Cousin Vinny.”

Agnello asks readers to question the images of material success perpetuated by the media.

It’s a lesson he’s learned the hard way. Agnello, a man whose former party-boy persona branded him “Stripper King of New York,” once danced for the city’s elite before venturing into acting roles on soap operas.

He was a self-described “mother’s nightmare” with no faith when he first started writing the book more than 20 years ago.

The story came to Agnello in a vision one night in 1991. He was lying in bed when the plot of “The Devil’s Glove” played out before him like “the coolest movie you’ve ever seen in your life,” he said. Agnello “jotted down the details” and soon completed about 80 percent of the novel.

But the manuscript stalled over the next few years as Agnello found himself embroiled in ongoing legal trouble and “distracted by women.” It wasn’t until a still-unsolved shooting in 2008 that Agnello revisited “The Devil’s Glove.”

Miraculously, he survived the two bullets — one that passed through his thigh and another that struck a stack of credit cards in his pocket.

Afterward Agnello fled to Florida, fearing for his life. It was there that his mother encouraged him to finish the book.

“When I got to Florida I opened my briefcase I’d been carrying around for about 18 years, and there’s this document that came off a floppy disk,” Agnello says. “I remember my mother looked at me and said, ‘You think maybe the bullets hit the credit cards for a reason? You ever think maybe you’re here because you didn’t finish this?'”

Agnello picked up work on “The Devil’s Glove” soon after, and published the novel — his first — in 2013.

Despite the book’s Christian themes, Agnello says “The Devil’s Glove” has attracted readers of many different faiths.

And, he says, the book’s most important message is also its most universal: “There’s always hope.”

“It is a book that will take you off the ledge and put you back on solid ground. It shows you that when it gets real dark, far off in the horizon you’ll see the light,” he said. “This is a book you’ll hold onto.”