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Falling Angel [Hardcover]

Hjortsberg William
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 242 pages
  • Publisher: Harcourt (1 Jan 1978)
  • ISBN-10: 0151301182
  • ISBN-13: 978-0151301188
  • Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.5 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,497,575 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon

One of the greatest mysteries ever written - Enjoy, and hold on to your soul. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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A routine missing persons case dissolves into a nightmare of voodoo and black magic when Harry Angel is pitted against the shadowy Louis Cyphre. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Six Stars, 21 Oct 2004
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M. Asher "FRSL" (Kenya) - See all my reviews
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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.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars New York private eye meets Voodoo Queen, 31 Mar 1999
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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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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars 'Falling Angel' vs 'Angel Heart', 27 May 2008
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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