Angel Time

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Anne Rice returns to the mesmerising story-
telling that has captivated readers for more than
three decades in a dark gothic novel of suspense
about assassins and angels. At its centre: Toby
O'Dare - Lucky the Fox - a contract killer of
underground fame. A soulless soul, a dead man
walking, he's fallen far from grace and lives
under a series of aliases. Lucky takes his orders
from someone he calls 'The Right Man', whose
name and allegiances he doesn't know.
Into his nightmarish world of lone and lethal
missions comes a mysterious stranger, who offers
him a chance to save lives, rather than destroy
them. Lucky, who grew up in New Orleans,
son of an alcoholic mother and a murdered
father, long ago dreamt of being a priest, craving
rituals, taking refuge in history, books and lute
music - but instead came to embody danger
and violence - now seizes his chance.
He is lifted in (angel) time and carried back
through the ages to thirteenth-century Norwich,
to a... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Anne Rice returns to the mesmerising story-
telling that has captivated readers for more than
three decades in a dark gothic novel of suspense
about assassins and angels. At its centre: Toby
O'Dare - Lucky the Fox - a contract killer of
underground fame. A soulless soul, a dead man
walking, he's fallen far from grace and lives
under a series of aliases. Lucky takes his orders
from someone he calls 'The Right Man', whose
name and allegiances he doesn't know.
Into his nightmarish world of lone and lethal
missions comes a mysterious stranger, who offers
him a chance to save lives, rather than destroy
them. Lucky, who grew up in New Orleans,
son of an alcoholic mother and a murdered
father, long ago dreamt of being a priest, craving
rituals, taking refuge in history, books and lute
music - but instead came to embody danger
and violence - now seizes his chance.
He is lifted in (angel) time and carried back
through the ages to thirteenth-century Norwich,
to a dangerous world where Jews live an uneasy
existence; protected by the crown for their
function as money-lenders, and unjustly despised
by the rest. Against this treacherous setting,
where accusations of ritual child murder have
been made against innocent Jews, O'Dare begins
a journey of salvation that leads him from the
medieval villages of England to the cities of
London and Paris, as his quest becomes a story
of danger and flight, loyalty and betrayal,
selflessness and love. Vissza