Just Another Angel - Softcover

Ripley, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845831063 ISBN 13: 9781845831066

Publisher: Telos Publishing Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

Just Another Angel London in the late 1980s - the era of Thatcherism and Loadsamoney - is an exciting but sometimes dangerous place to live. Fitzroy Maclean Angel gets by partly through gigging as a jazz trumpet player, partly through taking illegal fares in his de-registered black taxi cab, and partly through ... well, just being in the right place at the right time. And, as he often says himself, it's better to be... Full description

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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'

Synopsis

London in the late 1980s - the era of Thatcherism and Loadsamoney - is an exciting but sometimes dangerous place to live. Fitzroy Maclean Angel gets by partly through gigging as a jazz trumpet player, partly through taking illegal fares in his de-registered black taxi cab, and partly through...well, just being in the right place at the right time. And, as he often says himself, it's better to be lucky than good. In "Just Another Angel", his debut escapade, the streetsmart Angel meets a beautiful and enigmatic blonde - and that's just the start of his troubles. Hotly pursued by a jail-bird gangster and his 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...

Edition details

• Publisher: Telos Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845831063
• ISBN 13: 9781845831066
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210