When Karla Engel is sexually assaulted by four men in a dimly lit
parking lot, something inside her breaks, unleashing through its cracks
an avenging sword-wielding force that will sweep the streets of Saint
Paul: the Exterminating Angel!
It will be up to Marko Baiser, a police
detective, to hunt her down, only to find himself tangled in an
obsessive and deadly pursuit...
After publishing four collections of
short stories through Coolbooks (available only in Portuguese), all of
which are set in the fictional Saint Paul, the City of Industry, António
Bizarro's first book translated to English is a stand-alone novella
about a woman who, not only survives a harrowing ordeal, but also finds
the strength to fight back.
While fulfilling her desire for revenge,
Karla Engel, a.k.a. the Exterminating Angel, goes off on a path of
dispensing justice to those who prey on the weak!
«She saw the children
play under the watchful eye of their mothers, observed them one by one
and noticed that there were more boys than girls. Why was that? Later
that night, in her sleep, Karla Engel revisited the women at the park
talking to each other, without, however, failing to pay attention to the
children, and dreamed about swarms of angels that came to kill their
sons.»
