The Black Angel: A Charlie Parker Thriller
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (970 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000FCK6R0 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 262 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Publishers Weekly The first 60,000 copies of Irish thriller master Connolly's fifth Charlie Parker novel arrived signed, and with a CD. All rights reserved. (The latter featured tracks that either played a role in his darkly atmospheric novels, or were favored by their characters: everything from Kate Bush to Neko Case.) But fans won't need that much enticement to pick up his latest set of intricately plotted forays into the violent world of the undead. Connolly delivers a very intense blend of Parker's authentic soul searching and of his own distinctive, moody grue.(June)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Trips to the Czech Republic and elsewhere ensue as Parker seeks to know this latest face of evil. Parker has settled in Maine, still mourning his murdered wife and child while attempting devotion to his new partner, Rachel, and their infant daughter, Sam. It doesn't take much
Myth and Mayhem The 5th book in the Charlie Parker series, The Black Angel is probably the most ambitious work that author John Connolly has undertaken yet. Lurking behind the seemingly mundane, though by no means less disturbing, murder of a New York prostitute lies a more horrifying tale of evil featuring fallen angels and their insidious spread on earth. This is a compelling book that combines the modern day thriller with the dank realm of the myth and supernatural with spine tingling results.The story opens with a presentation of the myth that will drive the entire story. This myth involves The Black A. "A Mystery of Biblical Proportion" according to Gary Griffiths. Laced with liberal references to previous works, "The Black Angel", fifth in John Connolly's private investigator Charlie "Bird" Parker series of thrillers, is by far the author's most complex and ambitious effort. While Connolly's rich and lyrical prose always carries an element of the supernatural, "Angel" treads without apology into a heavily theological and mystical territory featuring allegorical fallen angels and the cult that worships them. A young prostitute has disappeared in New York, and Parker is called upon by the mother to try to find her. It turns out that the prostitute is a. Great read Good book but with all e different characters it can get a bit confusing.
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. 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. But the Black Angel is not a legend. It lives. 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. Like so many tormented souls before her, the girl's mother is inevitably drawn to Charlie Parker's doorstep desperate for redemption and revenge. It dreams. It is real. Despite the danger that his chosen profession i