The Second Angel

Kerr, Philip

ISBN 10: 0752826867 / ISBN 13: 9780752826868

Published by Orion, 1999

About this Item

Paperback, F. 432pp, a mint as new copy. Futuristic thriller involving the moon, world wide epidemics and crime. 300 grams.

Seller Inventory # 12726

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Second Angel
• Publisher: Orion
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0752826867
• ISBN 13: 9780752826868
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

It is 2069 and mankind is on the brink of extinction thanks to a virus that will wipe out four fifths of the population within ten years. In a world where blood is more valuable than gold, a man, whose daughter needs regular blood transfusions, must do all he can to get at the supplies. From the author of MARCH VIOLETS and DEAD MEAT.

Review

In The Second Angel, Philip Kerr's "hero", Dallas, is running for his life in a world where blood is the single most valuable commodity. Determined to avenge the deaths of his wife and child, he devises a plot to burgle the moon's top-security blood bank, gathering together a crew of lost souls, renegades and reprobates to assist him.

Kerr's blinding attention to detail (he includes a complicated series of footnotes explaining how mankind reached this soulless point), and his own lack of feeling for the characters he has created, is initially disconcerting. But as the story develops, the reader is compelled to live through this all-consuming thriller, coming to terms with the idea that Kerr's vision of the future may be more than just science fiction.

As the crew head to the moon to commit the crime of the century, the reader enters a miserable, bitter world (set just far enough in the future to be believable), where it is ever more difficult to discern what is good and what is evil, and where mankind is paying for mistakes that are all too familiar. --Susan Harrison