"Flawless ... beyond perfection." -- New York Magazine "An astonishingly well-written literary novel that just happened to be about (or roundabout) a crime." -- Barry Gifford "Black Wings Has My Angel is an indisputable noir classic ... Elliott Chaz…

During the 1950s, Gold Medal Books introduced authors like Jim Thompson, Chester Himes, and David Goodis to a mass readership eager for stories of lowlife and sordid crime. Today many of these writers are admired members of the literary canon, but o…

An acknowledged cult classic, Bill Pronzini makes a convincing argument that "Black Wings Has My Angel" is really a literary novel operating under the guise of a crime novel. The book is less about plot than the completely convincing characterizatio…