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Imprint: No Exit Press
Category: Thriller / suspense fiction
‘When the Devil laughs the whole damn world laughs with Him’
A mind-bending thriller blending hard-boiled detective fiction, supernatural horror, and metaphysical noir that takes readers on a macabre journey into the occult, from the East Coast to Paris to the Vatican, as private investigator Harry Angel, seeking both answers about his true identity and revenge, hunts down Satan himself. Here is the stunning sequel to the Edgar-nominated novel Falling Angel, the basis for the classic cult film Angel Heart, which also stands alone as a masterwork of noir suspense fiction.
Category: Thriller / suspense fiction
RRP: £9.99
ISBN: 9780857304131
Published: October 31, 2020
Extent: 384 pages
RRP: £4.99
ISBN: 9780857304148
Published: October 21, 2020
‘A suspenseful and very welcome second outing for Johnny Favourite’
Herald
‘Long-awaited and darker than hell’
Maxim Jakubowski
‘It’s like the Da Vinci Code crossed with The Exorcist – nightmarishly good’
John L. Williams , Mail on Sunday
William Hjortsberg (1941-2017) was an acclaimed author of novels and screenplays. Born in New York City, Hjortsberg’s first success came with Alp (1969), an offbeat story of an Alpine skiing village, which Hjortsberg’s friend Thomas McGuane called, ‘quite possibly the finest comic novel written in America.’ In the 1970s, Hjortsberg wrote two science fiction novels, Gray Matters (1971) and Symbiography (1973), as well as Toro! Toro! Toro! (1974), a comic jab at the macho world of bullfighting. His best-known work is Falling Angel (1978), a hard-boiled occult mystery. In 1987 the book was adapted into a film titled Angel Heart, …
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