The Angel of Darkness - Hardcover

Carr, Caleb

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679435328 ISBN 13: 9780679435327

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1997

Synopsis

Dr. Kreizler, the Alienist, investigates the kidnapping of the baby daughter of the wife of a Spanish diplomat, in the process uncovering a fiendish woman who has murdered a number of innocent children

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Review:

Portraying New York City circa 1897 as a time bomb of political corruption and violence, Caleb Carr returns to familiar territory in The Angel of Darkness, the sequel to his international bestseller, The Alienist. Also a stand-alone novel, The Angel of Darkness brings together the same cast of characters from The Alienist but the relating of their recent psychological investigation has shifted from John Moore to 13-year-old Stevie Taggert. Abandoned by his drug addict mother, raised on the streets and in love with a teenage prostitute, Stevie's narration brings to the novel a tender combination of streetwise nonchalance and a tentative optimism that has been fostered by Dr Laszlo Kriezler's care. But even Stevie isn't prepared for the case of Libby Hatch--a dangerous caretaker who leaves in her wake a trail of dead children and who has kidnapped the child of a Spanish diplomat. Racing against the clock of Libby's psychosis and a legal system that has blinkered itself to such atrocities, the group struggle to find the key that will reveal Libby's murderous nature. A fascinating exploration of the very modern theme of motherhood and its role in society, The Angel of Darkness is a taut, page-turning thriller set against a gloomy Dickensian backdrop of crime and depravation. --Shannon Bingham

Review:

Carr's follow-up to THE ALIENIST is just as good a read; a thrillingly macabre drive into the fetid depths of turn-of-the-century New York ... A triumph of research, it is also a triumph of imagination, express and feeling... brilliantly maintains a ferocious grip. Mail on Sunday Quite enthralling ... a novel with plays with but never insults the intelligence. The Times The sureness of the historical sensibility elevates THE ANGEL OF DARKNESS above genre fiction TLS Carr brings enormous gusto to his portrait of old New York... the city seems to rise off the page Independent on Sunday

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679435328
• ISBN 13: 9780679435327
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 629