Filmed as Angel Heart, by Alan Parker, a crime novel in which a New York detective becomes embroiled in a nightmare of voodoo and black magic when a missing-persons case he accepts develops into a mysterious murder investigation.
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One of the greatest mysteries ever written - Enjoy, and hold on to your soul. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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By M. Asher
Format:Paperback
I have read this book five times and seen the film at least as many, but I never grow tired of it. It is a unique and brilliant work. You start of by thinking that you are reading a genre detective story - hard nosed private eye hired to find missing pop singer etc etc. The book gradually opens out into something much, much bigger, until you realise that what we are dealing with here is the very interface of good and evil, and what is at stake is the detective's immortal soul. To go any further would be to spoil the story for those who don't know it.
This is simply the best and most rivetting thriller I have ever read. How I wish I had thought up a story as good as this! It deserves to sell ten million copies. I would give it six stars if I could.
This is simply the best and most rivetting thriller I have ever read. How I wish I had thought up a story as good as this! It deserves to sell ten million copies. I would give it six stars if I could.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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This is a highly enjoyable thriller, in the style of Raymond Chandler/Micky Spillane. Its hero is a hard-boiled (outwardly) New York shamus called Harold Angel, who is unfortunate enough to become embroiled with the Devil and a Voodoo Priestess whilst searching for a missing person. It is a tremendous read - it really carries you on in a breathless fashion, and I read it almost in one sitting. It is a complex story, and I'm looking forward to reading it again - slowly - so I can savour the writing. I thoroughly recommend this book to admirers of Philip Marlowe, Mike Hammer et al. Horror story fans would probably get something out of it, too. It has some nightmarish scenes in it.
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By C. Young
Format:Paperback
I wish I'd read the book before seeing Alan Parker's remarkable screen adaptation 'Angel Heart'. The potent imagery of the (fairly faithful) film version casts a long shadow over the source material and the shock of the horrific ending is inevitably spoiled. This is a shame as 'Falling Angel' is itself first-rate, and by the time I was about a third through, I felt the book had managed to re-emerge from the film's influence. Even knowing the denouement perhaps added to the sense of doom and inevitability that pervades the print version. The book concerns a New York gumshoe beginning to realise he is getting ever more deeply involved with dark forces he can barely comprehend, let alone outwit. I enjoyed the spot-on Chandleresque writing, although in the end the tight almost pastiche style seems just to lack the subtlety to deal with the hero's true predicament. The film for example more disturbingly hints at the detective's culpability in the crimes he is investigating. Nevertheless, the book is undoubtedly a hard-boiled classic in its own right.
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Cracking read ...
Well, what a cracking good read that was .... at first i struggled with the lingo & obviously didn't recognise the places but after a few chapters the jargon & the landscapes... Read more
Published 3 months ago by JoParky56
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Excellent Occult thriller
Its inevitable that anyone who has seen the film "Angel Heart" (1987) will not get as much of a thrill from the book, as those who havent. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Sourmashontherocks
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Satanism, New York, graphic content
This book belongs to the genre "Satanists in New York" - Seventh Victim, Rosemary's Baby. It was written in 1978, and set in 1958, which makes it read a little oddly at times. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Ms. L. R. Fisher
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Worth a read out of interest in comparing to film
I hunted down this book(its hard to find!) having watched the terrific Alan Parker film 'Angel Heart with Mickey Rourke and the scenery chewing Robert de Niro. Read more
Published on 4 Oct 2010 by P. G. Foxe
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Raymond Chandler meets William Peter Blatty
Having watched "Angel Heart" I was in two minds whether to read the source material, as indeed knowing the ending might spoil my enjoyment of the book. Read more
Published on 14 Oct 2009 by N.Evans
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