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She had the face of a madonna and a heart of dollar bills. Black Wings Has My Angel, Elliott Chaze's pulp classic, is the dreamlike tale of a man after a jailbreak who meets up with the woman of his dreams—and his nightmares. Black Wings Has My Angel, a phenomenal work of the period and a legend among noir buffs, is back in print for the first time in more than half a century.
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"An astonishingly well written literary novel that just happened to be about (or roundabout) a crime."
Oxford American
"The protagonist, ex-convict Tim Sunblade, is a quintessential antihero, an unrepentant bastard who executes a daring armed-car robbery in Colorado with the help of a call girl, Virginia, whom he picked up in a backwoods Mississippi motel. The details of the crime and its aftermath are vividly described, and the love-hate relationship between Sunblade and the woman and the demons in both that lead
Bill Pronzini, Mystery File