Falling Angel - Hardcover

Hjortsberg, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151301182 ISBN 13: 9780151301188

Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978

Synopsis

Edgar Award Finalist: The hunt for a vanished singer leads a detective into the depths of the occult in this “terrific” novel (Stephen King).
 Big-band frontman Johnny Favorite was singing for the troops when a Luftwaffe fighter squadron strafed the bandstand, killing the crowd and leaving the singer near death. The army returned him to a private hospital in upstate New York, leaving him to live out his days as a vegetable while the world forgot him. But Louis Cyphre never forgets. Cyphre had a contract with the singer, stipulating payment upon Johnny’s death—payment that will be denied as long as Johnny clings to life. When Cyphre hires private investigator Harry Angel to find Johnny at the hospital, Angel learns that the singer has disappeared. It is no ordinary missing-person’s case. Everyone he questions dies soon after, as Angel’s investigation ensnares him in a bizarre tangle of black magic, carnival freaks, and grisly voodoo. When the sinister Louis Cyphre begins appearing in Angel’s dreams, the detective fears for his life, his sanity, and his soul.

Falling Angel was the basis for the Alan Parker film Angel Heart, starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, and Lisa Bonet.
 This ebook features an illustrated biography of William Hjortsberg including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

About this title

Review:

“Terrific . . . One of a kind . . . I’ve never read anything remotely like it.” —Stephen King “A chilling homage to the hard-boiled detective novel of the Raymond Chandler school.” —The New York Times “A near perfect book . . . Not since Psycho changed the bathing habits of thousands has a novelist so completely turned conceptions inside out.” —Los Angeles Times

Book Description:

An Edgar Award–nominated classic, Falling Angel follows the hunt for a vanished singer that leads a detective into the depths of the occult. This hard-boiled detective novel was adapted for the screen as Angel Heart, starring Robert De Niro, in 1987.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0151301182
• ISBN 13: 9780151301188
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1