Angel Baby: A Novel
<strong>**Winner of the International Association of Crime Writers' Dashiell Hammett Award**</strong><br /><br /><strong>A woman goes on the run in this intense and cinematic thriller by an award-winning writer.</strong> <div><br /></div> <div>To escape the awful life she has descended into, Luz plans carefully. She takes only the clothes on her back, a Colt .45, and all the money in her husband's safe. The corpses in the hallway weren't part of her plan.<br /><br />Luz needs to find the daughter she left behind years earlier, but she knows she may die trying. Her husband is<strong> </strong><em>El Principe</em>, a key player in a high-powered drug cartel, a business he runs with the same violence he has used to keep Luz his perfect, obedient wife.<br /><br />With the pace and relentless force of a Scorsese film, ANGEL BABY is the newest masterpiece from one of the most ambitious and talented crime novelists at work today.</div>