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Rule of Life No. 477: When a woman admits that it's difficult for her to ask for something, leave immediately.Forgetting his own good advice, trumpet-player Angel (christened Fitzroy Maclean Angel) agrees to help the enigmatic Jo Scamp, a lady of brief but intimate acquaintance. And what begins with simple recovery of stolen jewelry develops into violence involving a deranged London gangster and a policeman with a vendetta.The first of Mike Ripley's Angel books, successfully establishing the sharp and genuinely funny series.