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ANGEL'S INFERNO WILLIAM HJORTSBERG MARKETING & SALES POINTS Angel's Inferno is the stunning sequel to Angel Heart and William Hjortsberg's final novel, completed just days before he died and continues the mix of hard-boiled detective fiction, supernatural horror, and metaphysical noir

Hjortsberg's novel Falling Angel was an Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel in 1979 and made into the hit film, Angel Heart starring Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro and directed by Alan Parker in 1987

William Hjortsberg was a genre-defying American novelist who wrote 12 books including Falling Angel and a screenwriter for the movies of Legend, Angel Heart and Thunder and Lightning

Download high resolution image Hjortsberg was part of the so-called Montana Gang, which included the writers Thomas McGuane, Jim Harrison, Tim Cahill and Richard Brautigan, as well as the musician Jimmy Pub. Date: 31 October 2020 Buffett and the actors Peter Fonda and Warren Oates. Price: £9.99 THE BOOK ISBN: 978-0-85730-413-1 'When the Devil laughs the whole damn world laughs with Him' Binding: Paperback Format: B (198 x 129mm) Extent: 384 A mind-bending thriller blending hard-boiled detective fiction, supernatural horror, and metaphysical noir Weight: 0 that takes readers on a macabre journey into the occult, from the East Coast to Paris to the Vatican, as Publishing UK & Commonwealth only, excl. Canada private investigator Harry Angel, seeking both answers about his true identity and revenge, hunts down Rights: Satan himself. Here is the stunning sequel to the Edgar-nominated novel Falling Angel, the basis for the Sales UK & Commonwealth incl. Canada. classic cult film Angel Heart, which also stands alone as a masterwork of noir suspense fiction. Rights: Open Market: RoW excl. North America

Market: Horror, Thriller PRAISE FOR WILLIAM HJORTSBERG BIC Code: FK: Horror & ghost stories FH: Thriller / suspense 'Falling Angel is a terrific book...I've never read anything remotely like it. Trying to imagine what might BISAC Code: FIC015000: Fiction : Horror FIC031080: Fiction : Thrillers : have happened if Raymond Chandler had written the Exorcist is as close as I can come' - Stephen Psychological King THEMA Code: FKM: Contemporary horror FHX: Psychological thriller 'Angel's Inferno is long-awaited and darker than hell. The devil owns all shades of noir in a sequel we Country of UK Manufacture: never thought would happen' - Maxim Jakubowski 'Masterfully shocking (on Falling Angel)' - The Observer Rpt. Code: IP 'Falling Angel is one of the greatest mysteries ever written' - Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Independent Marketing & PR Tel: 01582 766 348 'Much scarier than The Exorcist, Falling Angel makes most of Chandler's oeuvre feel like Rebecca of [email protected] Sunnybrook Farm' - Crime Time No Exit Press UK Distribution: Turnaround Harpenden 3 Olympia Trading Estate WILLIAM HJORTSBERG Herts AL5 1EQ Coburg Rd Tel: +44 (0)1582 766348 London N22 6TZ William Hjortsberg (1941&-2017) was an acclaimed author of novels and Tel: +44 (0)208 829 3000 www.turnaround-uk.com screenplays. Born in New York City, Hjortsberg’s first success came with Alp (1969), an offbeat story of an Alpine skiing village, which Hjortsberg’s friend noexit.co.uk/noexit.co.uk/angels-inferno @noexitpress Thomas McGuane called, “quite possibly the finest comic novel written in 2 America.” In the 1970s, Hjortsberg wrote two science fiction novels, Gray Matters (1971) and Symbiography (1973), as well as Toro! Toro! Toro! (1974), a comic jab at the macho world of bullfighting. His best-known work is Falling Angel (1978), a hard-boiled occult mystery. In 1987 the book was adapted into the film Angel Heart, which starred Robert De Niro and Mickey Rourke. Hjortsberg’s work also includes Jubilee Hitchhiker (2012), a biography of Richard Brautigan, American writer and voice of 1960s counterculture.