How Like an Angel

Description

Joe Quinn is cut adrift. He’s lost everything. His girl. His job. His place in the universe. A security head for a casino in Reno just can’t afford to have a gambling problem. Life takes a turn from tragic to strange when Quinn finds himself on the doorsteps of a religious cult’s tower in the remote California hills. Quinn hitched a ride from Reno but never thought he’d end up in a place like this. But a gambler has to play the hand he’s dealt. When one of the cultists asks Quinn to check on a man named Patrick O’Gorman and slides a not so small amount of money in his jacket, well, that’s just the sort of hand Quinn has been looking for. Thing is, Quinn soon finds out, O’Gorman disappeared under bizarre circumstances several years ago. For reasons he doesn’t entirely understand, perhaps for the sake of having a purpose, Quinn begins a lurid quest to uncover the truth. What he finds out instead is that there are just as many crazies outside the walls of a cultist tower as there are inside.

First Sentence

All night and most of the day they had been driving, through mountains, and desert, and now mountains again.

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Other Editions

• How Like an AngelMass Market PaperbackCarroll & Graf2000-01-01
• How like an angel.Random House1962-01-01
• How like an angelPublished for the Detective book club by W.J. Black1963-01-01
• Semejante a un ángelEmecé Editores1963-01-01
• How like an angelDell Pub. Co.1965-01-01
• D' entre les mortsDupuis1966-01-01