Angels in Heaven - Softcover

Pierce, David M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446401633 ISBN 13: 9780446401630

Publisher: Mysterious Pr, 1993

Synopsis

When a childhood buddy asks for Vic Daniel's help in escaping from a vicious high-security Mexican prison, the six-foot-seven-inch private eye heads for the "Hammock Capital of Mexico" with his motley cohorts

About this title

About the Author

David M Pierce has pursued the typical career path of the aspiring private-eye writer - aluminum company slave, furniture salesman, reporter, truck driver, magazine salesman, stage manager, actor, bartender and hatcheck girl. He has also written lyrics for Alice Cooper, Chad 'n Jeremy and John Entwhistle and co-wrote and acted in the musical comedy 'Captain Crash vs. the Zorg Woman, Parts 5 & 6'. He is the author of three previous Vic Daniel mysteries: 'Down in the Valley', 'Hear the Wind Blow , Dear...' and 'Roses Love Sunshine', as well as and 'Write Me a Letter' and 'As She Rides By' which follow on from 'Angels in Heaven' in the series. Born in Montreal, David M Pierce spent years in London and Los Angeles before settling in Paris.

From Publishers Weekly

This fourth Vic Daniel mystery by Canadian expatriate Pierce is the U.S. hardcover debut of this laconic and grumbling, brutally funny, 6 7 Southern California detective. A master of off-center characterization and the oddball narrative view, Pierce conjures up low-rent coastal locales filled with Vietnamese restaurants, with strains of poor-gumshoe blues in the background. Early cases involve hiking across town to establish an alibi for a client and helping an aspiring basketball star hide a point-shaving past. The action picks up when a boyhood chum in a Mexican jail pleads for help. Vic, his multi-purpose gofer, punkette/poet Sara Silvetti, and the ace conman Benny the Boy pack their bags, their Montezuma's Revenge medicine and their fake passports and head south. Madcap storytelling and nutso types whose smart mouths run in overdrive make up for dated aspects of the five-year-old plot: riffs on Apple II computers and Valley talk don't play as well as they used to, nor is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar hitting the basket anymore, as he does here. Readers for whom Ross Thomas can't write enough will grin slyly with Pierce, even so.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Mysterious Pr
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0446401633
• ISBN 13: 9780446401630
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 202