Just Another Angel - Hardcover

Ripley, Mike

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750527595 ISBN 13: 9780750527590

Publisher: Magna Large Print Books, 2008

Synopsis

In the exciting but sometimes dangerous London of the 1980s, Fitzroy Maclean Angel, jazz trumpet player and illegal taxi driver, meets a beautiful and enigmatic blonde - and that's just the start of his troubles. Hotly pursued by a jail-bird gangster and this thuggish henchman, a maverick cop bent on revenge, and a dogged Inland Revenue inspector, he finds his life becoming more complicated by the minute. And just how an emerald pendant, a women's peace camp and a wad of French francs fit into the picture, he can hardly imagine...

About this title

From the Back Cover

Rule of Life No. 477: When a woman admits that it's difficult for her to ask for something, leave immediately.

Forgetting his own good advice, trumpet-player Angel (christened Fitzroy Maclean Angel) agrees to help the enigmatic Jo Scamp, a lady of brief but intimate acquaintance. And what begins with the simple recovery of stolen jewellery develops into violence involving a deranged London gangster and a policeman with vendetta.

The nastiness comes unpleasantly close to home, but if you've a working knowledge of the seamy underside of London, a trusty black taxi called Armstrong and a cynical black cat called Springsteen to rely on, you can handle it...Can't you?

"One of the best first novels of the year".
'Times Literary Supplement'

"Slangy but educated Angel...could become a habit".
'Sunday Times'

"Brisk, eventful and genuinely funny".
'Literary Review'

Edition details

• Publisher: Magna Large Print Books
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750527595
• ISBN 13: 9780750527590
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304