The Third Angel Arrives on Tuesday April 8th, 2008.

A novel is formed in so many ways, from so many pieces of a writer's life and consciousness, but The Third Angel began in a hotel in London in the summer of  2004. My UK publisher put me up in a hotel in Knightsbridge for a book tour. It was hot that summer and the rooms were broiling. There were air-conditioners perched on stands, vented through hoses in the open window - so that the hot air continued to stream through.

That first night as I ...