Bootlegged Angel - Mike Ripley Reviews

Bootlegged Angel - Mike Ripley Fiction Book

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Newest Review: ... his wife ferrying models around, to try and discover who are the main culprits of this smuggling ring. Angel gets more than ... more

 ... he bargains for when he ends up as temporary landlord of the last honest pub in Kent. What seems a pretty easy case soon gets darker when hard nosed criminals get involved. Can Angel bring down the booze runner? More importantly, can he ever work out how to change a barrel? ‘Bootlegged Angel’ is a very leisurely novel and it certainly takes its time getting to the action. In fact the first half of the book feels more like a nice country tale than crime fiction. However, this does not actually pose that much of an...more

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Bootlegged Angel - Mike Ripley: Angel Delight (791 words)
by - written on 29/01/07 (Very useful, 68 readings)
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If I ever saw a real angel the chances are that I would be dead or perhaps having a near death experience. I like to imagine them as being beautiful men and women adorned with vast white wings and backlit with celestial white light. Perhaps a small cherub will float by on a cloud strumming a tune on their suspiciously small lyre. Imagine then your surprise is you met a bloke calling himself Angel that was driving a black cab. An aging, balding, cockney chancer who considers themselves a bit of an expert in the underworld of crime and vice. With a knowledge of crime and a knowledge of ‘The Knowledge’ Angel can freelance himself out as a off the books private eye. ...  Read the complete review

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