Synopsis
Angel has to find his missing brother and then get him out of an outrageous drug deal. Angel is also involved with a family of East End gangsters and a dubious scam involving stolen diesel fuel and empty beer barrels. Along the way, he renews his friendship with Sophie - a disgraced air hostess.
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About the Author
Mike Ripley was born in 1952. As well as being a noted critic and Lecturer in Crime Writing, he is the author of the ‘Angel’ series of crime novels, for which he has twice been the recipient of a Crime Writers’ Association Award. Working with the Margery Allingham Society, he completed the Albert Campion novel left unfinished, Mr Campion’s Farewell, and has written further continuation novels in the series.
From the Back Cover
Most families have a skeleton in the cupboard. Fitzroy Maclean Angel has a mortuary…
It requires all Angel’s streetwise talents to find a missing brother, uncover an outrageous Common Market drugs deal, survive sex on the Eurostar deep in the Channel Tunnel 'and ' solve the problem of just where do you hide a field of cannabis
And if his own estranged parents apart isn’t hard enough, Angel also has to contend with a family of East End gangsters involved in the curious case of the missing diesel fuel and stolen beer barrels.
When the going gets tough, it might just mean that Angel has to make the ultimate sacrifice…
‘Angels one-liners are frequent and funny, but there is an acute observer of modern mores beneath the endearing roguishness’
MARCEL BERLINS, 'The Times'
‘Three cheers for an extraordinary hero who has never made an excuse and left. Ripley on rich and ribald form’
PHILIP OAKES, 'LITERARY REVIEW'
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