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  • Published: 31 December 2013
  • ISBN: 9780143124863
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $45.00

Angelopolis

A Novel





The New York Times bestselling sequel to Angelology.

"A stunning follow-up to the best-seller Angelology. . . Part historical novel, fantasy, love story, thriller, and mystery. . . It's a must-read."
Booklist (starred review)
 
A New York Times bestseller and global sensation, Angelology unfurled a brilliant tapestry of myth and biblical lore on our present-day world and plunged two star-crossed heroes into an ancient battle against mankind’s greatest enemy: the fatally attractive angel-human hybrids known as the Nephilim. With Angelopolis, the conflict deepens into an inferno of danger and passion unbound.

A decade has passed since Verlaine saw Evangeline alight from the Brooklyn Bridge, the sight of her new wings a betrayal that haunts him still. Now an elite angel hunter for the Society of Angelology, he pursues his mission with single-minded devotion: to capture, imprison, and eliminate her kind.

But when Evangeline suddenly appears on a twilit Paris street, Verlaine finds her nature to be unlike any of the other creatures he so mercilessly pursues, casting him into a spiral of doubt and confusion that only grows when she is abducted before his eyes by a creature who has topped the society’s most-wanted list for more than a century. The ensuing chase drives Verlaine and his fellow angelologists from the shadows of the Eiffel Tower to the palaces of St. Petersburg and deep into the provinces of Siberia and the Black Sea coast, where the truth of Evangeline’s origins—as well as forces that could restore or annihilate them all—lie in wait.

Conceived against an astonishing fresh tableau of history and science, Angelopolis plumbs Russia’s imperial past, modern genetics, and ancient depictions of that most potent angelic appearance—the Annunciation of Gabriel—in a high-octane tale of abduction, treasure seeking, and divine warfare as the fate of humanity once again hangs in the balance.

  • Published: 31 December 2013
  • ISBN: 9780143124863
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $45.00

About the author

Danielle Trussoni

Danielle Trussoni is the author of the memoir Falling Through the Earth, which was chosen by the New York Times as one of the ten best books of 2006. She currently lives in France with her husband, the writer Nikolai Grozni, and their children.

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Praise for Angelopolis

Praise for Angelology:
"Sensual and intelligent, Angelology is a terrifically clever thriller--more Eco than Brown. . . . It makes no apologies for its devices, and none are necessary. How else would it be possible to bring together the angels of the Bible and Apocrypha, the myth of Orpheus, Bulgarian geography, medieval monastics, the Rockefellers, Nazis, nuns and musicology? And how splendid that it has happened."
--New York Times Book Review, front page review

"Angelology finds an almost hallucinatory power . . . fusing the debased, the psychological, and the theological, into a single rich, strange tableau that transmits a shock of truth."
--Time

"Stellar . . . . A thrill ride best described as The Da Vinci Code meets Raiders of the Lost Ark."
--USA Today

"Breathtakingly imaginative."
--People

"A gorgeous gothic world . . . where the people who surround us are not what they seem, and stories are unveiled as more truth than fable. This is a book that resonates as both haunting and holy. A must read."
--Brunonia Barry

"Move over, vampires. Dark angels are on the horizon in Trussoni's hefty fiction debut. . . . She offers up intriguing characters, lyrical nature descriptions, hidden clues, secret codes, hidden manuscripts and treasure hunts, creating a sumptuous and surprising novel."
--National Public Radio

"A great, cracking thunderbolt of a story. Angelology is an exquisitely crafted adventure into untold realms of imagination, religion, and history. . . . A triumph."
--Katherine Howe

"A richly detailed, brilliantly conceived work that opens a golden door into another world--or, even more alluringly, another sphere."
--Lincoln Child

"A pleasure from start to finish. . . . A wonderful achievement."
--Kate Mosse

"A thrilling, gorgeous read. Atmospheric, beguiling, and--if you'll pardon the pun--diabolically good."
--Raymond Khoury

"A holy thriller that will arrest your attention from the opening pages and not let go till its mysteries take wing."
--Keith Donohue

"One cannot help being seduced by this unusual, imaginative, literary religious thriller."
--Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"Powerfully entertaining. . . . It's hard not to enjoy the secrets unearthed and appreciate what wings are to the angels who secretly walk among us."
--Booklist

Praise for Angelopolis:

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Impressively chilling . . . Terrifying . . . Trussoni's tighter and more engaging sequel improves upon its predecessor [with] Dan Brown-style schooling . . . entertaining alternate history details . . . and Trussoni's creepiest Nephilim to date."
--The New York Times Book Review

"[Trussoni] has created such a seductive alternative history that it easily puts anything Dan Brown has imagined to shame. Skillfully layering significant myths from before the Common Era into the narrative, [she] makes it hard not to believe that anything is and was possible." --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"A stunning follow-up to the best-seller Angelology . . . Part historical novel, fantasy, love story, thriller, and mystery . . . It's a must-read."
---Alison Downs, Booklist (starred review)

"Exciting . . . devotees of Trussoni's first novel will enjoy this continuation of the crusade to save humankind."
--Joy Gunn, Library Journal

"Trussoni's fiction has been compared to Dan Brown's, and justifiably so; her metaphysical action premise shares a sensibility with The Da Vinci Code, and there's a familiar air to academic turned angel-hunter V.A. Verlaine as he struggles with his romantic feelings toward a woman whose genetic legacy holds profound religious significance. Angelopolis moves at a blink-and-you'll-miss-it pace, and Trussoni has a knack for creating wonderfully immediate images. The sequel to Angelology is a lightning-fast read packed with killer angels, royal conspiracies, kidnappings and train-top chases."
--Shelf Awareness

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