UNCOVER THE VERY BEST IN CRIME AND THRILLER WRITING
WINNER OF THE 2014 HAMMETT PRIZE
Luz has made a lot of mistakes, but she’s trying to make up for it. She’s worked it all out. She’s quit the drugs. She’s only taking the clothes on her back, a gun and the money in her husband’s safe. She’s going to find her daughter and no one’s going to stop her.
The corpses in the hallway weren’t part of the plan.
In this powerful story of revenge and redemption, one woman’s desperate break for freedom will change the lives of criminals and cops on both sides of the border.
Luz has made a lot of mistakes, but she’s trying to make up for it. She’s worked it all out. She’s quit the drugs. She’s only taking the clothes on her back, a gun and the money in her husband’s safe. She’s going to find her daughter and no one’s going to stop her.
The corpses in the hallway weren’t part of the plan.
In this powerful story of revenge and redemption, one woman’s desperate break for freedom will change the lives of criminals and cops on both sides of the border.
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Reviews
A film waiting to happen, this book boasts memorable characters, evocative settings and a suspenseful plot.
Lange's prose is masterful, his sense of pacing unfaltering, and he writes about characters on the cutting edge of life... They'll call it "unputdownable" and "a page-turner," and they'll be spot on. You won't know exactly how right they are until you pick up Angel Baby and it burns you to set it aside for even a minute.
When you find yourself rooting for the killer in a grisly crime novel, you know you're in the hands of a real writer
There are books - like Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men and Nic Pizzolatto's Galveston - that open with a trigger snap of trouble and blast forward with the propulsive force of a bullet and never stop moving...ANGEL BABY puts Lange in a new category: crime boss
Strong and relentless....Beautifully paced, deftly written, ANGEL BABY is a book about moral compromise, in which we have empathy for everyone (or almost everyone) and no one at once.... As with life, ANGEL BABY offers a story in which motivations are murky and every act is weighted, and the best we can hope for is that the means will be justified by the results
The story is thrilling and cinematic, told as one long chase scene....Lange inhabits his novel's characters. There's no pure black and white to them, only varying and unexpected shades of gray.... Intense, extreme and definitely grimy and readers will find that's a good thing
Almost every character in Lange's latest crime novel is made desperate by personal demons, and this struggle creates a fast-paced thrill ride.... A Tarantino-like vortex of mayhem and violence
Lange's prose is sharp throughout and his pacing moves with the momentum of rolling thunder.... No one is good in this superb portrait of wrecked lives, but no one is entirely evil either. Everyone is painfully human and recognizable in his or her suffering....a truly great read