Angel City

London: HarperColins Publishers, 1994. BH5 - A first British edition hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling and chipping on the edges and corners, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Although not marked in any way, this copy comes from the personal collection of Otto Penzler, legendary editor and founder of the Mysterious Press, an award-winning icon in the genre. 8.75"x5.5", 192 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Down on his luck and flat broke, Fitzroy Maclean Angel is forced to take desperate steps and get a job. Two jobs, in fact, and done - at the request of the unpredictable Tigger O'Neill 0 is definitely dodgy. As the Caring Nineties and the New Age pass him by - although not, he is alarmed to see, some of his friends - Angel is drawn into a series of underworlds. The underworld of callous crime and corruption, the seedier side of the gay scene, the growing subculture of drugs and the plight of London's homeless community. Then there is the underworld, literally, of role-playing fantasies where the monsters suddenly become real and the games turn very dangerous indeed. bu0002325039 if anyone can negotiate the dark underbelly of London life - it's Angel. Clever, witty, sharp, Angel City is both the funniest and the hardest-hitting novel yet from this author.. First British Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.