Bootlegged Angel

Fitzroy Maclean Angel #9

by Mike Ripley

Angel is supposed to be reforming, but his new job is not all it's cracked up to be. Then he's offered a job working undercover for a brewery in darkest Kent, where bootlegging cheap beer from France is a growth industry. Angel infiltrates one gang of imaginative, but amateur, smugglers and comes up against another who are anything but amateur, especially when it comes to violence. Then Angel finds himself in charge of a run-down country pub, when a crooked American couple are preying very successfully on unsuspecting publicans in the area. Still, no one has ever called Angel unsuspecting...

Genres: Crime

Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Mike Ripley is the author of the award-winning 'Angel' series of comedy thrillers which have twice won the CWA Last Laugh Award. It has been said that he 'paints a picture of London Dickens would recognise' and that 'he writes like the young Len Deighton, wierd and wonderful information and very, very funny'. Described as 'England's funniest crime writer' (The Times), he is also a respected critic of crime fiction, writing for the Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Times and the Birmingham Post among others.