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ANGEL BABY

Richard Lange

A woman goes on the run in this intense and cinematic thriller by an award-winning writer.

To escape the awful life she has descended into, Luz plans carefully. She takes only the clothes on her back, a Colt .45, and all the money in her husband's safe. The corpses in the hallway weren't part of her plan. Luz needs to find the daughter she left behind years earlier, but she knows she may die trying. Her husband is El Principe, a key player in a high-powered drug cartel, a business he runs with the same violence he has used to keep Luz his perfect, obedient wife. With the pace and relentless force of a Scorsese film, ANGEL BABY is the newest masterpiece from one of the most ambitious and talented crime novelists at work today.

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Book Published 2013-05-01 by Mulholland Books
Book Published 2013-05-01 by Mulholland Books

Comments

France: Albin Michael Italy: Einaudi

Richard Lange has a PhD in badass, and in Angel Baby he leads the reader through every can’t-look, can’t-look-away-corner of treachery and sleaze, violence and danger, with a level of detail and authority so overpowering, so spot-on in every nuance of criminal speech and casual savagery that it would surprise absolutely no one to discover the author did some kind of time on the dark side himself before scrapping his sawed-off for a laptop. From the opening paragraph, Lange ratchets up the tension, and doesn’t let up until the last realer-than-real, punch-in-the throat scene. I loved this book – and can’t wait until his next one. Lange stands out as the greatest young crime writer of his generation, precisely because he doesn’t write crime – he writes literature. Dark, true, wild-ass, and un-fucking-put-downable.

A sharply calibrated and affecting tale about a young Mexican beauty who will do anything to reclaim the baby daughter she left in Los Angeles…He makes readers care about his flawed characters and appreciate the odds that were stacked against them by the circumstances of their upbringing. A film waiting to happen, this book boasts memorable characters, evocative settings, and a suspenseful plot.

Angel Baby is a bone-crushing nightmare parable: bad people doing the wrong things for love.

Lange’s follow-up marks him as a crime novelist to watch.

Angel Baby starts off in a sprint and never slows down. Richard Lange is a natural-born storyteller. What an excellent novel, both suspenseful and surprisingly moving.