The Angle Quickest for Flight

In The Angle Quickest for Flight, author Steven Kotler weaves a multilayered narrative of ethical thieves, mythical poisoners, priests both murderous and possessed, and a church steeped in secrecy. The story centers on the quest by a runaway boy named Angel for the Sefer ha-Zaviot, a sacred Jewish text buried among the looted riches of the Spanish Inquisition. Along the way, Angel's attempts to wrest the treasure from its hiding place bring him into contact with an unforgettable assortment of characters: Johnnii, an iconoclast obsessed with the 65th hexagram of the I Ching; Coyote Blú a smuggler of great renown; Gabrial, an albino Rastafarian; and the treacherous double agent Christiana.