The Second Angel - Softcover

Kerr, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671024728 ISBN 13: 9780671024727

Publisher: Pocket Books, 2000

Synopsis

In the year 2069, plagues and climatic changes wreak havoc on the world, and a new virus that can only be cured by an infusion of uninfected blood runs rampant, with the moon housing America's federal reserve of the priceless commodity. Reprint.

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Review:

In The Second Angel, Philip Kerr's "hero", Dallas, is running for his life in a world where blood is the single most valuable commodity. Determined to avenge the deaths of his wife and child, he devises a plot to burgle the moon's top-security blood bank, gathering together a crew of lost souls, renegades and reprobates to assist him.

Kerr's blinding attention to detail (he includes a complicated series of footnotes explaining how mankind reached this soulless point), and his own lack of feeling for the characters he has created, is initially disconcerting. But as the story develops, the reader is compelled to live through this all-consuming thriller, coming to terms with the idea that Kerr's vision of the future may be more than just science fiction.

As the crew head to the moon to commit the crime of the century, the reader enters a miserable, bitter world (set just far enough in the future to be believable), where it is ever more difficult to discern what is good and what is evil, and where mankind is paying for mistakes that are all too familiar. --Susan Harrison

About the Author:

Named one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists, Philip Kerr is the author of eleven wildly imaginative and acclaimed novels, including Esau, which has been optioned for a major motion picture by Walt Disney, A Five-Year Plan, which was bought for a major motion picture by the actor Tom Cruise, and The Shot, which is coming soon in hardcover from Pocket Books. The Second Angel has been optioned for a major motion picture by Warner Bros. Mr. Kerr lives in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0671024728
• ISBN 13: 9780671024727
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 439