France, the final weeks of World War I. Private Cyril Bagger has survived the trenches through cunning rather than courage. He lies, cheats, and swindles his fellow soldiers whenever he can. Then he and four other men are sent on a grim mission into No Man’s Land: to find a wounded comrade and put him out of his misery. What they discover among the craters and barbed wire is not a dying soldier but an angel, apparently brought down by artillery fire. The creature may hold the power to end the war. But to make use of it, five desperate men would have to set aside their own fears, ambitions, and desires and trust one another. On a battlefield like this one, that may be the most impossible thing of all. Blending historical war fiction, horror, and the supernatural, Angel Down explores greed, faith, and the senseless machinery of war. The novel is written as a single, unbroken sentence that carries the reader through the chaos of the front without pause. It won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.