Black Wings Has My Angel, Elliott Chaze’s pulp classic, is the dreamlike tale of a man after a jailbreak who meets up with the woman of his dreams—and his nightmares.

Black Wings Has My Angel, a phenomenal work of the period and a legend among noir buffs, is back in print for the first time in more than half a century.

“The protagonist, ex-convict Tim Sunblade, is a quintessential antihero, an unrepentant bastard who executes a daring armed-car robbery in Colorado with the help of a call girl, Virginia, whom he picked up in a backwoods Mississippi motel. The details of the crime and its aftermath are vividly described, and the love-hate relationship between Sunblade and the woman and the demons in both that lead to their downfall are masterpieces of dark-side character development.”—Bill Pronzini, Mystery File