Angel City
London in the early 1990s; supposedly the New Age 'caring '90s'. But the streets, it turns out, are not paved with gold, but covered with the homeless living in sleeping-bags and cardboard boxes, and often littered with a far more dangerous form of flotsam. For Angel, the city divides into several layers of underworlds and sub-cultures: callous crime and corruption, the growing drug culture, the seedier side of the gay scene, the young and homeless. There is also a more literal underworld where the role-playing game of Dungeons and Dragons can shift from fantasy to real violence at the flick of a wizard's wand ... But most serious of all is that Angel is down on his luck and flat broke. The situation is critical. So critical, he might even have to get a job...
'... enough successful one-liners to keep a television comic going until retirement. Not many crime novels cause one to laugh aloud. This is one of them.' - T J Binyon, Daily Telegraph
'... the usual excellent wisecracking ... [as Angel] takes his – and society's – revenge for two different, linked crimes in a sad, bad world with great guile.' - John Coleman, Sunday Times
'Hugely funny, with a catch in the laughter; politicians should steer clear of the talented Mr Ripley as he cuts through the fluff of the Caring Society.' - Christopher Wordsworth, The Observer
'Angel City, featuring the reprobate ultra-streetwise specialist in smart one-liners Fitzroy Maclean Angel, is a lot more sombre than its predecessors. That is not to say it lacks the exuberant, laugh-aloud fun and inventiveness of the others; but there is in addition an edge and an anger that were not there before ... and an authentic feel for the sub-currents of the underworld.' - Marcel Berlins, The Times
'A welcome return for a writer who is really funny.' - Allan Laing, Glasgow Herald
'... Angel, the bad boy who always comes good.' - Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph
'The speed and exuberance of one-liners make it irresistible.' - Matthew Coady, Guardian
'Comic crime writing isn't easy, but Ripley's Angel novels are as witty as they are deftly plotted. Ripley's latest is as boisterous and inventive as ever.' - Philip Kerr, Time Out
'An abundance of comedy keeps this novel spiritedly off the rails.' - Patricia Craig, Times Literary Supplement
Another of Telos Publishing's reissues of celebrated British author Mike Ripley's series of comic crime novels featuring Fitzroy Maclean Angel.
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'... enough successful one-liners to keep a television comic going until retirement. Not many crime novels cause one to laugh aloud. This is one of them.' - T J Binyon, Daily Telegraph
'... the usual excellent wisecracking ... [as Angel] takes his – and society's – revenge for two different, linked crimes in a sad, bad world with great guile.' - John Coleman, Sunday Times
'Hugely funny, with a catch in the laughter; politicians should steer clear of the talented Mr Ripley as he cuts through the fluff of the Caring Society.' - Christopher Wordsworth, The Observer
'Angel City, featuring the reprobate ultra-streetwise specialist in smart one-liners Fitzroy Maclean Angel, is a lot more sombre than its predecessors. That is not to say it lacks the exuberant, laugh-aloud fun and inventiveness of the others; but there is in addition an edge and an anger that were not there before ... and an authentic feel for the sub-currents of the underworld.' - Marcel Berlins, The Times
'A welcome return for a writer who is really funny.' - Allan Laing, Glasgow Herald
'... Angel, the bad boy who always comes good.' - Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph
'The speed and exuberance of one-liners make it irresistible.' - Matthew Coady, Guardian
'Comic crime writing isn't easy, but Ripley's Angel novels are as witty as they are deftly plotted. Ripley's latest is as boisterous and inventive as ever.' - Philip Kerr, Time Out
'An abundance of comedy keeps this novel spiritedly off the rails.' - Patricia Craig, Times Literary Supplement
Another of Telos Publishing's reissues of celebrated British author Mike Ripley's series of comic crime novels featuring Fitzroy Maclean Angel.
Angel City
London in the early 1990s; supposedly the New Age 'caring '90s'. But the streets, it turns out, are not paved with gold, but covered with the homeless living in sleeping-bags and cardboard boxes, and often littered with a far more dangerous form of flotsam. For Angel, the city divides into several layers of underworlds and sub-cultures: callous crime and corruption, the growing drug culture, the seedier side of the gay scene, the young and homeless. There is also a more literal underworld where the role-playing game of Dungeons and Dragons can shift from fantasy to real violence at the flick of a wizard's wand ... But most serious of all is that Angel is down on his luck and flat broke. The situation is critical. So critical, he might even have to get a job...
'... enough successful one-liners to keep a television comic going until retirement. Not many crime novels cause one to laugh aloud. This is one of them.' - T J Binyon, Daily Telegraph
'... the usual excellent wisecracking ... [as Angel] takes his – and society's – revenge for two different, linked crimes in a sad, bad world with great guile.' - John Coleman, Sunday Times
'Hugely funny, with a catch in the laughter; politicians should steer clear of the talented Mr Ripley as he cuts through the fluff of the Caring Society.' - Christopher Wordsworth, The Observer
'Angel City, featuring the reprobate ultra-streetwise specialist in smart one-liners Fitzroy Maclean Angel, is a lot more sombre than its predecessors. That is not to say it lacks the exuberant, laugh-aloud fun and inventiveness of the others; but there is in addition an edge and an anger that were not there before ... and an authentic feel for the sub-currents of the underworld.' - Marcel Berlins, The Times
'A welcome return for a writer who is really funny.' - Allan Laing, Glasgow Herald
'... Angel, the bad boy who always comes good.' - Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph
'The speed and exuberance of one-liners make it irresistible.' - Matthew Coady, Guardian
'Comic crime writing isn't easy, but Ripley's Angel novels are as witty as they are deftly plotted. Ripley's latest is as boisterous and inventive as ever.' - Philip Kerr, Time Out
'An abundance of comedy keeps this novel spiritedly off the rails.' - Patricia Craig, Times Literary Supplement
Another of Telos Publishing's reissues of celebrated British author Mike Ripley's series of comic crime novels featuring Fitzroy Maclean Angel.
'... enough successful one-liners to keep a television comic going until retirement. Not many crime novels cause one to laugh aloud. This is one of them.' - T J Binyon, Daily Telegraph
'... the usual excellent wisecracking ... [as Angel] takes his – and society's – revenge for two different, linked crimes in a sad, bad world with great guile.' - John Coleman, Sunday Times
'Hugely funny, with a catch in the laughter; politicians should steer clear of the talented Mr Ripley as he cuts through the fluff of the Caring Society.' - Christopher Wordsworth, The Observer
'Angel City, featuring the reprobate ultra-streetwise specialist in smart one-liners Fitzroy Maclean Angel, is a lot more sombre than its predecessors. That is not to say it lacks the exuberant, laugh-aloud fun and inventiveness of the others; but there is in addition an edge and an anger that were not there before ... and an authentic feel for the sub-currents of the underworld.' - Marcel Berlins, The Times
'A welcome return for a writer who is really funny.' - Allan Laing, Glasgow Herald
'... Angel, the bad boy who always comes good.' - Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph
'The speed and exuberance of one-liners make it irresistible.' - Matthew Coady, Guardian
'Comic crime writing isn't easy, but Ripley's Angel novels are as witty as they are deftly plotted. Ripley's latest is as boisterous and inventive as ever.' - Philip Kerr, Time Out
'An abundance of comedy keeps this novel spiritedly off the rails.' - Patricia Craig, Times Literary Supplement
Another of Telos Publishing's reissues of celebrated British author Mike Ripley's series of comic crime novels featuring Fitzroy Maclean Angel.
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| BN ID: | 2940157629847 |
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| Publisher: | Telos Publishing Ltd |
| Publication date: | 03/12/2016 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 135 |
| File size: | 176 KB |
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