- Paperback: 90 pages
- Publisher: Pendragon Press, Maesteg; paperback / softback edition (1 Dec 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 095385986X
- ISBN-13: 978-0953859863
- Product Dimensions: 20 x 14.2 x 0.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,507,458 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In 1945, the Archangels materialised over the battlefields of Europe, ushering in a new Cold War. Fifty years later, they are being killed off... one by one. But who - or what - can kill an angel? Killarney is a shadow executive for the Bureau, British Intelligence's most secret organisation: so secret it doesn't even officially exist. She is the best - and she always works alone. Sent on a desperate mission to locate a missing cryptographer who may prove the key to the murders, Killarney finds herself running for her life, from London to Paris to Moscow, leading to a confrontation with a very human evil in the frozen wastelands of Novosibirsk. Plagued by dreams of a different world, and haunted by a swastika adorned with angel wings, it ould take all of Killarney's resources to survive, when heaven itself may be threatened, and God herself may be walking the earth...
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An Occupation of Angels is a taut, high-octane thriller in the tradition of Adam Hall's Quiller novels and Tim Powers' Declare. This is the first novella from the winner of the Clarke-Bradbury Prize, and is an hallucinatory trip that is guaranteed to get you high... as high as angels.
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This review is from: An Occupation of Angels (Paperback)
An Occupation of Angels is a master-class in pulp fiction; the pace is break-neck, with the book reading like a cross between Ian Fleming's James Bond and Gregory Widen's The Prophecy. It's maybe like the impression we'd have of Brian Lumley's `Necroscope' if he'd stripped back the characterisation and had stopped writing after the first, superior installment of his series.
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An easy to read and enjoyable book,
This review is from: An Occupation of Angels (Kindle Edition)
This is a short story that flies by at such a rate it almost felt like flash fiction.
Mr Tidhar is a well travelled chap, and this comes out in his vivid description of various places across the world. It is even more impressive that he manages it with a minimal amount of words. This story is based around the premise that Angels came to earth and ended the Second World War. The cold war turns out to be rather different. Angels are not quite how we imagine them to be, and mankind lives in fear of these capricious overlords. The plot centres around a mysterious group changing the balance of power and the British agent sent to protect the interests of the crown. This young lady does not have an easy time of it, and by the time we get to the climax of the story she is not exactly in the box seats. I found this to be a fresh and original story. It took hardly any time or effort to read, and left me wanting to read more by the author. Now where did I put the Bookman #2?
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4.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review) 0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Good campy fun,
By Maverynthia - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: An Occupation of Angels (Kindle Edition)
A bit cheesy at the end however was a nice good spy-like romp of fun. If you have fun playing those thinly storied FPS computer games such as Doom 3 and Quake, it's got that kind of campy feel to it.
The only problems I had was keeping the characters straight and keeping the settings in mind. The main character herself has three different aliases. I'm also glad this book isn't one I wanted to throw across the room. It doesn't like to use shock language like other books would. Though, the comparing human/thin = good and large/obese = bad did give a good record scratch while I was reading. |
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