Angel’s Inferno

'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.

• Angel's Inferno is the stunning sequel to Angel Heart and William Hjortsberg's final novel, completed just days before he died and continues the mix of hard-boiled detective fiction, supernatural horror, and metaphysical noir
• Hjortsberg's novel Falling Angel was an Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel in 1979 and made into the hit film, Angel Heart starring Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro and directed by Alan Parker in 1987
• William Hjortsberg was a genre-defying American novelist who wrote 12 books including Falling Angel and a screenwriter for the movies of Legend, Angel Heart and Thunder and Lightning
• Hjortsberg was part of the so-called Montana Gang, which included the writers Thomas McGuane, Jim Harrison, Tim Cahill and Richard Brautigan, as well as the musician Jimmy Buffett and the actors Peter Fonda and Warren Oates.

"Angel’s Inferno" was written by William Hjortsberg.

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, which starred Robert De Niro and Mickey Rourke. Hjortsberg's work also includes Jubilee Hitchhiker (2012), a biography of Richard Brautigan, American writer and voice of 1960s counterculture. He died in 2017.

"Angel’s Inferno" is perfect for readers who enjoy books about horror & ghost stories and thriller / suspense.