Angel City - Hardcover

Ripley, Mike

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750536101 ISBN 13: 9780750536103

Publisher: Magna Large Print Books, 2012

Synopsis

London in the early 1990s; supposedly the New Age 'Caring Nineties'. But the streets, are not paved with gold, but covered with homeless living in sleeping-bags and cardboard boxes, and often littered with a far more dangerous form of flotsam. For, Angel, the city divides into several layers of underworld and sub-cultures: callous crime and corruption, the growing drug culture and the seedier side of the gay scene, the young and homeless. But most serious of all is that Angel is down on his luck and flat broke. The situation is critical. So critical, he might even have to get a job...

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From the Back Cover:

Down on his luck and flat broke, Angel is forced to take desperate steps and get a job. Two jobs, in fact, and one – at the request of the unpredictable Tigger O'Neill – is definitely dodgy.

As the Caring Nineties and the New Age pass him by – although not, he is alarmed to see, some of his friends – Angel is drawn into an underworld of callous crime and corruption; the seedier side of the gay scene; the twilight world of London's homeless...Then there is the underworld, literally, of role-playing fantasies where the monsters suddenly become real and the games aren't so funny any more...

“Enough funny one-liners to keep a television comic going until retirement”
DAILY TELEGRAPH

“Hugely funny, with a catch in the laughter; politicians should steer clear of the talented Mr Ripley as he cuts through the fluff of the Caring Society”
OBSERVER

“A wonderfully seedy, evocative book, with the comic thriller elements nicely balanced”
GAY TIMES

About the Author:

Mike Ripley is the two-time winner of the Crime Writers Last Laugh award, and the author of several thrillers and historical novels. He writes a hugely respected monthly review column for Shots Magazine entitled getting Away with Murder. Philip Youngman Carter was Margery Allingham s artist husband and a novelist in his own write.

About this edition

• Publisher: Magna Large Print Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0750536101
• ISBN 13: 9780750536103
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336