Bootlegged Angel

Fitzroy Maclean Angel #9

by Mike Ripley

When inept private eye Veronica Blugden offers streetwise Fitzroy Maclean Angel a job, he is instantly suspicious. Until, that is, he learns that it involves working undercover for a brewery in darkest Kent, where bootlegging cheap beer from France is a growth industry. With his usual skill for being in the wrong place at the right time, Angel manages to infiltrate one gang of imaginative but amateur smugglers and comes up against another that is anything but amateur - especially when it comes to violence. And to top it all, he finds himself put in charge of a run-down country pub, where boosting the turnover should be dead easy - as long as he can press-gang a trio of fashion models into acting as barmaids ...

Telos Publishing is proud to present another in its range of reissues of Mike Ripley's acclaimed series of comic crime novels - complete with a new, specially-written introduction by the author. This edition, published to celebrate the Angel series' 25th Anniversary in August 2013, also included the bonus short story 'Calling Cards', unseen in print since its sole previous publication in 1992.

'Mike Ripley's Angel series is back and taking no prisoners, with one of the best hangover scenes in crime fiction.' Ian Rankin

'Like fine malt whisky, Angel is high proof and totally addictive.' Time Out'The outrageous, rip-roarious Mr Ripley is an abiding delight ...' Colin Dexter

Genres: Crime

291 pages, 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.