Angel's Inferno

Name: Angel's Inferno
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: William Hjortsberg
ISBN: 9798350873184

Author: William Hjortsberg

Series: Falling Angel #2

Narrator: Michael Kirby

Unabridged: 14 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/17/2023

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Hard-boiled, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

A 1950s amnesiac and hard-boiled detective sets out for revenge in this blend of mystery, supernatural horror, and metaphysical fiction.

Private investigator Harry Angel is in a jam. Handcuffed in his apartment along with the cops and a corpse, he stands accused of violently murdering three people. The good news is he knows who did it. But in order to exonerate himself, Harry must first make his escape—and figure out his own identity.

With the authorities hot on his heels, Harry travels from New York and Boston to Paris and the Vatican in search of an elusive stage magician. Eventually piecing together his mysterious past, he descends into the dark world of the occult. And very soon he will have vengeance upon the devil himself . . .

A terrifying thriller, Angel's Inferno is the long-awaited follow-up to the Edgar Award–nominated noir suspense novel Falling Angel, the basis of the film Angel Heart.

Contains mature themes.

About William Hjortsberg

William Hjortsberg (1941-2017) was an acclaimed author of novels and screenplays. Born in New York City, Hjortsberg's first success came with Alp (1969), an offbeat story of an Alpine skiing village, which Hjortsberg's friend Thomas McGuane called, "quite possibly the finest comic novel written in America." In the 1970s, Hjortsberg wrote two science fiction novels, Gray Matters (1971) and Symbiography (1973), as well as Toro! Toro! Toro! (1974), a comic jab at the macho world of bullfighting. His best-known work is Falling Angel (1978), a hard-boiled occult mystery. In 1987 the book was adapted into a film titled Angel Heart, which starred Robert De Niro and Mickey Rourke. Hjortsberg's work also includes Jubilee Hitchhiker (2012), a biography of Richard Brautigan, American writer and voice of 1960s counterculture.

Reviews

Goodreads review by William on February 06, 2024

No more an angel but still a favourite. I've been waiting for this for decades, the posthumously published sequel to Falling Angel. I read the book even before seeing the seminal Angel Heart movie, but both of them have, over time, become interwoven and hard to untangle in my mind. Reading this book,......more

Goodreads review by Bill on March 18, 2023

William Hjortsberg's 1978 novel Falling Angel was an enjoyable read & it was adapted into the excellent 1987 film Angel Heart. This long awaited sequel published in 2020 (three years after the author's death) sadly doesn't match Falling Angel. It opens with detective Harry Angel (or is he really jazz......more

Goodreads review by Jim on August 12, 2020

First I read the Centipede Press limited edition, and the regular won't be out until possibly October. Beautiful produced book, but was nervous reading it as it was quite pricey. The quick transition from the ending of the first book to the second answers any question about how Hjortsberg would conti......more

Goodreads review by Aneliya on March 18, 2023

Finally finished the second part of William Hjortsberg series.Neo noir novel include satanic rituals,murders(relating with occultism of the Satan),some nasty scenes.The first part “Falling Angel” is base of the movie “Angel Heart” with the great Robert De Niro,Mickey Rourke and Lisa Bonet.This secon......more

Goodreads review by Sara on April 20, 2021

I really enjoyed this book. Kept me turning the pages and found it hard to put down. Did keep imaging Mickey Rourke as the detective.This book was a good follow up from Falling Angel.......more