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Angels Unaware is the thrilling, hilarious fifteenth and final entry in best-selling British author Mike Ripley's acclaimed series of comic crime novels featuring his most celebrated creation, streetwise chancer Fitzroy Maclean Angel.Now reluctantly working for Rudgard & Blugden Confidential Investigations, a previously all-female private detective agency, Angel takes on what at first appears to be a routine missing persons case for an old acquaintance. Soon, though, he finds himself getting caught up in a complex web of crime involving a Polish-born porn star, an East-European people-trafficking business and a motorbike-riding homicidal maniac - not to mention having to cope with his increasingly testing family responsibilities, including his newfound status as a father …This Telos Publishing reissue - the first since the novel's original hardback publication in 2008 - comes complete with a new, specially-written introduction by the author.'Pedigree gags, an audacious plot and the supreme pleasure of hearing an unmistakeable master tell the tale' - Literary Review.'As hilarious and outrageous as ever, fully justifying Ripley's tag as "England's funniest crime writer".' - Birmingham Post.'Downright funny. Long live the Ripster!' - Deadly Pleasures.

At the insistence of his fashionista wife, the currently heavily pregnant Amy May, streetwise chancer Fitzroy Maclean Angel has joined Rudgard & Blugden Confidential Investigations, a previously all-female private detective agency - although the vintage crime paperbacks he refers to as 'training manuals' still haven't sold him on the idea of having to go to work every day. His latest assignment is seemingly simple - to track down an elderly client's long-lost first love - but before long he is up to his eyes in problems, including dealing with a teenage internet scammer, being kidnapped on a motor-cruiser and getting caught up in a shoot-out between two deranged OAPs …Telos Publishing is proud to present another of its reissues of Mike Ripley's acclaimed series of comic crime novels - complete with a new, specially-written introduction by the author.'England's funniest crime writer' - Marcel Berlins, The Times.'Street wisdom, weird and wonderful information and very, very funny' - Michael Dibdin.