Angels Unaware is the thrilling, hilarious fifteenth and final entry in best-selling British author Mike Ripley's acclaimed series of comic crime novels featuring his most celebrated creation, streetwise chancer Fitzroy Maclean Angel.
Now reluctantly working for Rudgard & Blugden Confidential Investigations, a previously all-female private detective agency, Angel takes on what at first appears to be a routine missing persons case for an old acquaintance. Soon, though, he finds himself getting caught up in a complex web of crime involving a Polish-born porn star, an East-European people-trafficking business and a motorbike-riding homicidal maniac not to mention having to cope with his increasingly testing family responsibilities, including his newfound status as a father
This Telos Publishing reissue the first since the novel's original hardback publication in 2008 comes complete with a new, specially-written introduction by the author.
'Pedigree gags, an audacious plot and the supreme pleasure of hearing an unmistakeable master tell the tale' Literary Review.
'As hilarious and outrageous as ever, fully justifying Ripley's tag as "England's funniest crime writer".' Birmingham Post.
'Downright funny. Long live the Ripster!' Deadly Pleasures.