Angel Time: The Songs of the Seraphim 1 - Softcover

Rice, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0701178175 ISBN 13: 9780701178178

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 2009

Synopsis

At the centre: Toby O'Dare - Lucky the Fox - a contract killer of underground fame. A soulless soul, a dead man walking...He's fallen far from grace, and lives under a series of aliases. Lucky takes his orders from someone he calls 'The Right Man', someone whose name and allegiances he doesn't know.

When the novel opens, the time is the present. The place is Riverside, California, the Mission Inn. For O'Dare, it is his place of solace; he can be there without disguise. This time, he's been sent on an assignment to kill. Into his nightmarish world of lone and lethal missions, comes a mysterious stranger, a seraph, who offers him a chance to save lives, rather than destroy them. Lucky, who grew up in a New Orleans, son of an alcoholic mother and a murdered father, long ago dreamt of being a priest, craving rituals, taking refuge in history, books and lute music - but instead came to embody danger and violence - now seizes his chance.

He is lifted in (angel) time and carried back through the ages to thirteenth-century England, to a dangerous world, where Jews live an uneasy existence, their money coveted and protected by the crown for their function as money-lenders, unjustly despised by the rest. Into this primitive, treacherous setting, where accusations of ritual murder have been made against innocent Jews, and children have been found dead or missing, O'Dare begins a journey of salvation that leads him from the medieval villages of England to the cities of London and Paris as his quest becomes a story of danger and flight, loyalty and betrayal, selflessness and love.

About this title

Review:

"Thrilling. . .divinely entertaining."
--PEOPLE magazine (3 1/2 stars)
"Full of provocative moral reflections. . . Readers will revel in Rice's colorful recreation of the historical past and in her moving depiction of characters struggling to reconcile matters of the heart with their personal sense of faith."
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"Readers looking either for a convincing story of faith rediscovered or simply an exciting read will be pleased by Rice's compelling tale, and many will hope for more books featuring her fascinating and utterly sympathetic new hero."
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"Time travel, ultraviolence and medieval madness--divine intervention rendered fantastically by Rice. . . With t

"Thrilling. . .divinely entertaining."
--PEOPLE magazine (3 1/2 stars)
"Full of provocative moral reflections. . . Readers will revel in Rice's colorful recreation of the historical past and in her moving depiction of characters struggling to reconcile matters of the heart with their personal sense of faith."
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--"Publishers Weekly"
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"Readers looking either for a convincing story of faith rediscovered or simply an exciting read will be pleased by Rice's compelling tale, and many will hope for more books featuring her fascinating and utterly sympathetic new hero."
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"--"Booklist," starred
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"Time travel, ultraviolence and medieval madness--divine intervention rendered fantastically by Rice. . . With two marvelous reimaginings of the Gospels and a spiritual autobiography recently extending her range, Rice revisits the shadows of her vampire classics; now however with her return to Catholicism, her sinners vie for redemption

"Thrilling. . . . [Readers] will feel divinely entertained." "--People
""Veers delightfully into vintage Rice."" --Elle
""Intriguing. . . . A richly enveloping atmosphere." "--The Times Picayune
""Rice brings an energy and sincerity to her story." "--USA Today
""Rice takes her writing from the dark into the light, and does so stunningly, without losing any of her spark." "--Dallas Morning News
""A masterpiece that both invites and provokes." "--L.A. Examiner
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Thrilling. . . . [Readers] will feel divinely entertained. " People
" Veers delightfully into vintage Rice. " Elle
" Intriguing. . . . A richly enveloping atmosphere. " The Times Picayune
" Rice brings an energy and sincerity to her story. " USA Today
" Rice takes her writing from the dark into the light, and does so stunningly, without losing any of her spark. " Dallas Morning News
" A masterpiece that both invites and provokes. " L.A. Examiner
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Thrilling. . . . [Readers] will feel divinely entertained. People
Veers delightfully into vintage Rice. Elle
Intriguing. . . . A richly enveloping atmosphere. The Times Picayune
Rice brings an energy and sincerity to her story. USA Today
A masterpiece that both invites and provokes. L.A. Examiner

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Book Description:

Anne Rice, on top form, returns to the mesmerizing storytelling that has captivated readers for more than three decades in a dark gothic novel of suspense about assassins and angels, set in worlds past - the first in a new series called The Songs of the Seraphim.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0701178175
• ISBN 13: 9780701178178
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288