Angel Baby (Mulholland Books)
A woman goes on the run in this intense and cinematic thriller by an award-winning writer.
To escape the awful life she has descended into, Luz plans carefully. She takes only the clothes on her back, a Colt .45, and all the money in her husband's safe. The corpses in the hallway weren't part of her plan.
Luz needs to find the daughter she left behind years earlier, but she knows she may die trying. Her husband is El Principe, a key player in a high-powered drug cartel, a business he runs with the same violence he has used to keep Luz his perfect, obedient wife.
With the pace and relentless force of a Scorsese film, ANGEL BABY is the newest masterpiece from one of the most ambitious and talented crime novelists at work today.
"Richard Lange has a PhD in badass, and in Angel Baby he leads the
reader through every can't-look, can't-look-away corner of treachery and
sleaze, violence and danger. Lange stands out as the greatest young
crime writer of his generation, precisely because he doesn't write
crime--he writes literature." --Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent
Midnight
"Angel Baby is a bone-crushing nightmare parable: bad people doing the
wrong things for love." --Warren Ellis, author of Gun Machine
Richard Lange is the author of the story collection Dead Boys, which received an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the novel This Wicked World. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories 2004 and 2011. He lives in Los Angeles.
Photo by Beth Coller