New York Review Books Classic has done a great job of preserving lost classics and unknown masterpieces, and this time it's Eillott Chaze's lost hardboiled standout Black Wings Has My Angel (1953). It is the story of a tough talking kid fresh from jail, Tim Sunblade, with a little money in his pockets with a desire to live free and easy without ever losing his freedom again. Along the way way he meets his match: Virginia, a sharp tongued, long legged blonde with bold ambitions and a healthy dose of cynicism herself. It a great ride that I don't want to spoil. It seems as if this is the best Chaze had in him, in the introduction by novelist Barry Gifford, he mentions that he sought out his other works and found them wanting in comparison to this tough, black diamond.
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