Black Angel is
heart-stopping page-turning horror. It begins with an appalling killing – not
for the squeamish, but if you’re squeamish you’ll probably not read horror
novels anyway! An entire family is done to death in a kind of ritual, for no
apparent reason.
Thereafter,
as Lieutenant Larry Foggia of the SFPD tries to make sense of a series of such
ritual killings, he is sucked into the dark scary world of séances and the
Black Brotherhood.
All
the way you feel for the lives of his loved ones, so compelling is the story-telling,
so realistic are the characters.
Even the most ridiculous manifestations leave
you looking over your shoulder: a ghost who can suck out your life and soul and
leave you a shrunken husk, still kind-of-living? A drowned girl who manifests
in front of Foggia during lovemaking with his wife? San Francisco fog… and an
all-seeing evil entity waiting, waiting to eat his fill of the entire city?
Leavened with some humour. Very good.
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