{"product_id":"angels-inferno-9781504067188","title":"Angel's Inferno","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 1950s amnesiac and hard-boiled detective sets out for revenge in this blend of mystery, supernatural horror, and metaphysical fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Private investigator Harry Angel is in a jam. Handcuffed in his apartment along with the cops and a corpse, he stands accused of violently murdering three people. The good news is he knows who did it. But in order to exonerate himself, Harry must first make his escape--and figure out his own identity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With the authorities hot on his heels, Harry travels from New York and Boston to Paris and the Vatican in search of an elusive stage magician. Eventually piecing together his mysterious past, he descends into the dark world of the occult. And very soon he will have vengeance upon the devil himself . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A terrifying thriller, \u003ci\u003eAngel's Inferno\u003c\/i\u003e is the long-awaited follow-up to the Edgar Award-nominated noir suspense novel \u003ci\u003eFalling Angel\u003c\/i\u003e, the basis of the film \u003ci\u003eAngel Heart\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eFalling Angel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Terrific . . . One of a kind . . . I've never read anything remotely like it.\" --Stephen King \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A chilling homage to the hard-boiled detective novel of the Raymond Chandler school.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A near perfect book . . . Not since \u003ci\u003ePsycho\u003c\/i\u003e changed the bathing habits of thousands has a novelist so completely turned conceptions inside out.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHjortsberg, William:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - William Hjortsberg (1941-2017) was an acclaimed author of novels and screenplays. Born in New York City, Hjortsberg's first success came with \u003ci\u003eAlp\u003c\/i\u003e (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, \u003ci\u003eGray Matters \u003c\/i\u003e(1971) and \u003ci\u003eSymbiography\u003c\/i\u003e (1973), as well as \u003ci\u003eToro! Toro! Toro!\u003c\/i\u003e (1974), a comic jab at the macho world of bullfighting. His best-known work is \u003ci\u003eFalling Angel\u003c\/i\u003e (1978), a hard-boiled occult mystery. In 1987 the book was adapted into a film titled \u003ci\u003eAngel Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, which starred Robert De Niro and Mickey Rourke. Hjortsberg's work also includes \u003ci\u003eJubilee Hitchhiker\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), a biography of Richard Brautigan, American writer and voice of 1960s counterculture. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Road Media Mystery \u0026 Thri","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50554176241938,"sku":"9781504067188","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7e7bbd13-5ea2-4519-ac20-b144382f65c2.jpg?v=1731709271","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/angels-inferno-9781504067188","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}