Angel Touch: Volume 2 (Fitzroy McClean Angel) - Softcover

Ripley, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845838785 ISBN 13: 9781845838782

Publisher: Telos Publishing Limited, 2014

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 Angel Touch, his second escapade, the streetsmart Angel comes to the aid of his neighbour, the sexy financial analyst Salome, and finds himself carrying out an undercover investigation into an insider trading scam amongst the coked-up whizzkids and mega-rich wheeler-dealers of the City. And things turn even nastier when a fatal car crash turns out to be anything but an accident ...

Back in print are the titles in Mike Ripley's acclaimed 'Angel' series of comic crime novels. Each title is handsomely packaged and contains an specially-written introduction by the author.

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From the Back Cover

Streetsmart, jazz-playing taxi driver Fitzroy Maclean Angel is the first to admit he's an innocent when it comes to financial wheeling and dealing in the big bad City. But he learns fast when his eminently fanciable yuppie neighbour Salome is suspected of insider trading on the Stock Exchange and asks for his help.

Financial leaks turn into a highly suspicious fatal car accident and a cunning conspiracy masterminded by a disgraced City whizzkid. Angel has no difficulty finding out who is to blame, but setting a trap- a financial scam designed to 'lose' money- lands him and his motley bunch in some heavy trouble.

"My laugh-aloud read of the year".
'The Times'

"In Mike Ripley we have at last an English crime writer who may be mentioned in the same breath as George V. Higgins and Elmore Leonard".
'Daily Telegraph'

WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITER'S ASSOCIATION LAST LAUGH AWARD

Edition details

• Publisher: Telos Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845838785
• ISBN 13: 9781845838782
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 266