Fitzroy Maclean Angel Series by Mike Ripley (.ePUB)
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Fitzroy Maclean Angel Series (#1-6, 9-15) by Mike Ripley
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Overview: The Fitzroy Maclean Angel books follow Roy Angel, a jazz trumpeter and sometime taxi driver who would much rather drift through life than hold down a proper job. When readers first meet him in Just Another Angel, he is hustling illegal fares in a deregistered black cab and gigging in pubs across late‑1980s London.
Angel is not a trained detective. He is a streetwise chancer who gets pulled into other people’s schemes through friends, girlfriends and sheer bad luck. One case starts with a mysterious blonde and ends up involving gangsters, a vengeful cop and a women’s peace camp. Another sees him dragged into insider trading scandals in the City, or pressed into service chasing animal‑rights extremists whose plans go far beyond protest.
Across the series Ripley uses Angel to explore different slices of contemporary Britain. The books move from Thatcher‑era banking floors and homeless encampments to role‑playing game circles, heavy‑metal tours, bootlegging operations in rural Kent and chaotic archaeological digs in Suffolk. Angel’s home turf stretches from London’s East End to Essex and eventually to the Cambridgeshire countryside.
As the novels progress, Angel’s life changes. He falls for fashion designer Amy May, finds himself contemplating fatherhood and, in self‑defence, becomes part of a small private detective agency. Even then he remains a reluctant professional, constantly torn between domestic obligations, his old crowd and the lure of one more daft, dangerous job that might just pay the bills.
The tone is fast, talkative and very funny, but the stakes are real. Ripley is happy to send up pretension and poke fun at crooks, cops and trendsetters, yet the crimes involve real money, real damage and, quite often, genuine menace. Violence can erupt without warning, and the comedy sits alongside a clear sense of how money, class and power work in modern Britain.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
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