Filmed as Angel Heart by Alan Parker
An outstanding, spellbinding novel of murder, mystery and the occult, Falling Angel pits a tough New York private eye, Harry Angel against the most fearsome adversary a detective ever faced - one Louis Cyphre. For Angel a routine missing-persons case turns into a fiendish nightmare of voodoo and black magic, of dizzying peril and violent death - a world in which the shadow he chases seems to be the shadow he casts.
'One of the greatest mysteries ever written'
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Independent [read the full review]
'A terrific book...I've never read anything remotely like it. Trying to imagine what might have happened if Raymond Chandler had written the Exorcist is as close as I can come.'
- Stephen King
'Masterfully shocking'
- The Observer
'one of the best crime novels of the twentieth century'
- Rafe McGregor, Crime Stories & Weird Tales - Rafe McGregor's Blogspot [read the full review]
'Brilliant and frightening '
- Thomas McGuane
'A sort of ultimate detective story...it is one breathless read in high paced prose'
- Thomas Keneally