Synopses & Reviews
To those who have been forsaken, hell has no geography.
The Black Angel begins with the disappearance of a young prostitute from one of New York City's seamiest neighborhoods. Like so many tormented souls before her, the girl's mother is inevitably drawn to Charlie Parker's doorstep desperate for redemption and revenge. Despite the danger that his chosen profession imposes on his wife and newborn daughter, Parker knows that the woman and her troubles cannot be ignored. As always, he is driven as much by the evil that simmers in the hidden honeycomb world as he is by the ties of friendship and blood.
As Parker gets closer to the girl's captors, he discovers that her disappearance is linked to a church of bones in Eastern Europe, to the slaughter at a French monastery in 1944, and to the myth of an object known as the Black Angel an object considered by evil men to be beyond priceless. But the Black Angel is not a legend. It is real. It lives. It dreams. And the mystery of its existence may contain the secret of Parker's own origins.
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"Stylishly literate gore and terror." Kirkus Reviews
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"[B]y far Connolly's most ambitious work....The Black Angel is nothing less than a classic work, a tale in which one can feel reality shifting and churning uneasily with the turn of each page. Highest possible recommendation." BookReporter.com
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"Connolly...once again blends the private-eye novel and the supernatural thriller in a way that's altogether unique. Parker himself...is a complex creation whose depths have still, even through five novels, been barely explored." Booklist
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"Unique as the results are, the mix doesn't always hold....Like Milton, Connolly saves some of his best lines or at least the creepiest images for the devil's party." Boston Globe
Synopsis
Detective Charlie Parker returns in The Black Angel, the sixth thriller by acclaimed New York Times bestselling author John Connolly.
Synopsis
Detective Charlie Parker returns in this sixth thriller, in which he searches for a kidnapped young woman, whose disappearance is linked to a mythical object known as the Black Angel--an object that may contain the secret of Parker's own origins.
About the Author
John Connolly is the author of the #1 international bestsellers Dark Hollow, Every Dead Thing, The Killing Kind, and The White Road, and the short story collection Nocturnes. He is a regular contributor to The Irish Times and lives in Dublin, Ireland.