Lights, Camera, Angel - Hardcover

Ripley, Mike

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750518502 ISBN 13: 9780750518505

Publisher: Magna Large Print Books, 2002

Synopsis

Streetwise chancer Fitzroy Maclean Angel’s fashion-designer wife Amy gets him involved in her latest project - working on a big-budget movie being filmed at Pinewood. With his unerring knack of running into trouble, Angel discovers that the mishaps dogging the production are anything but accidental. And the devastatingly handsome star seems especially at risk, from two separate groups of fanatical fans, including his very own internet stalker. Angel is tasked with keeping the star out of harm’s way – and, having incurred the wrath of a vicious Chinese tong member, that isn’t going to be easy ... Telos Publishing is proud to present another in its range of reissues of Mike Ripley’s acclaimed series of comic crime novels – complete with a new, specially-written introduction by the author. This edition also includes the bonus short story ‘Angel Eyes’, unseen in print since its sole previous publication in 1999. ‘Mayhem blends with gentle satire as the jokes and one-liners cascade among stalkers, internet villains and the obligatory femmes fatales. Farce of the highest calibre.’ - Guardian. ‘High comedy quotient, splendid scams ... but [don't] fail to notice what a seriously good writer Ripley is.’ – The Literary Review.

About this title

Review

' Like fine malt whisky, Angel is high proof and totally addictive' -- Time Out

'Exhuberant, laugh-aloud fun and cleverness... but there is in addition, an edge and an anger.' -- Marcel Berlins, The Times

'Farce of the highest calibre' -- Guardian

'I never read Ripley on trains, planes or buses. He makes me laugh and it annoys the other passengers.' -- Minette Walters

'The outrageous, riproaring Mr. Ripley is an abiding delight' -- Colin Dexter

About the Author

Mike Ripley has twice won the Crime Writer's Last Laugh Award for comedy crime. He is the crime fiction critic for The Daily Telegraph and co-editor of the Fresh Blood anthologies which promote new British crime writing talent.

Edition details

• Publisher: Magna Large Print Books
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750518502
• ISBN 13: 9780750518505
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 480