- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; New Ed edition (24 April 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006490123
- ISBN-13: 978-0006490128
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 448,745 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Angel City: Fitzroy Maclean Angel Series, Book 5
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It's only a short step, thinks Fitzroy MacLean Angel, from driving the car for hire he calls Armstrong to signing on with plugged-in teenager Tigger O'Neil to pick up some plastic sacks for one Bert Bassotti and deliver them to a series of London scrap yards. The runs, though obviously illegal, are quick and lucrative, and if Tigger isn't great company - we're talking about as much mental activity as a giant redwood - there are no strings attached. Until Tigger vanishes, that is, and Angel finds that he's more committed to the kid than he thought. A tip from Tigger's equally scintillating mate Lee (the Smackhead) sends Angel, together with a quiet neighbor who reveals unsuspected depths, on a fantasy-playing stint in a dark cave, where Angel does indeed find the boy - only to lose him to murderous thugs. It's only with Tigger's death and the sudden disappearance of Bassotti's firm that the real detection starts, as Angel, seeking to avenge the teen, drags his new Phantom of the Opera mask around West London asking where Bassotti's gone, why anybody would have killed inoffensive Tigger, and, oh yes, what was in those plastic sacks in the first place? Angel (Angels in Arms, 1992, etc.) leans a little too heavily on his raffish charm in this mechanically plotted, depthless refugee from the telly. (Kirkus Reviews)
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One of the award-winning comic crime series featuring Fitzroy MacLean Angel, who is forced to take desperate steps and get a job. Two jobs, in fact, and one - at the request of the unpredictable Tigger O'Neil - is definitely dodgy.
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To explain why Angel City (1994) is a disappointment, I need to mention that there is a continuous series of 13 Angel novels dating from 1989 up to July 2008, and that within them there are some very interesting characters who appear and reappear.
Angel (Fitzroy Maclean Angel) is a bit of James Bond character; he lives a rich and varied life.
He has a fantastic menagerie of housemates in Hackney.
He works with a strange and diverse group of "detectives" in Shepherds Bush.
His family is as eccentric as you can imagine.
He deals with dodgy characters all over the place and many of them owe him favours.
Angel City, though, is a disappointment because of the thinness of the plot. (And it's also implausible, but when was that a serious fault?)
Here, Angel spends most of his time acting as a delivery man, driving round London in his deregistered taxi. Then he gets caught up in a scam with a jumpy teenager, Tigger. When the lad disappears, Angel is paid to find him. This involves infiltrating an underground Dungeons & Dragons setup (nothing to do with computers) and trying to work out who is doing what to whom.
Storywise, there isn't much about his housemates, nothing about his family, and his career as a detective doesn't kick off until the next episode, Angel Confidential, which is a much better caper. As I say, Angel City is a bit thin.
On the positive side, I could just see this novel being filmed ahead of the others: the simplicity and directness of the plot would make it an excellent action movie. And in any case, I think Mike Ripley could well become the Next Big Thing - the Angel novels as a whole are a source of interesting characters and believable situations.
Angel (Fitzroy Maclean Angel) is a bit of James Bond character; he lives a rich and varied life.
He has a fantastic menagerie of housemates in Hackney.
He works with a strange and diverse group of "detectives" in Shepherds Bush.
His family is as eccentric as you can imagine.
He deals with dodgy characters all over the place and many of them owe him favours.
Angel City, though, is a disappointment because of the thinness of the plot. (And it's also implausible, but when was that a serious fault?)
Here, Angel spends most of his time acting as a delivery man, driving round London in his deregistered taxi. Then he gets caught up in a scam with a jumpy teenager, Tigger. When the lad disappears, Angel is paid to find him. This involves infiltrating an underground Dungeons & Dragons setup (nothing to do with computers) and trying to work out who is doing what to whom.
Storywise, there isn't much about his housemates, nothing about his family, and his career as a detective doesn't kick off until the next episode, Angel Confidential, which is a much better caper. As I say, Angel City is a bit thin.
On the positive side, I could just see this novel being filmed ahead of the others: the simplicity and directness of the plot would make it an excellent action movie. And in any case, I think Mike Ripley could well become the Next Big Thing - the Angel novels as a whole are a source of interesting characters and believable situations.
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