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The Black Angel

A Thriller

By John Connolly

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| eBook | 9781416510147

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Detective Charlie Parker returns in The Black Angel, the sixth thriller by acclaimed New York Times bestselling author John Connolly.

A young woman has been snatched from the streets of New York, but her abductors have made a fatal mistake. She is "blood" to the former assas Continue

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The Black Angel By John Connolly

Irish author John Connolly neatly splits the genre difference between mystery and horror with his latest Charlie Parker thriller, The Black Angel. Parker is drawn into the search for a missing woman, the cousin of a close friend and business associat ... (read full critics)

bookpage published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

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"This is another terrific Parker tale that readers will appreciate" Charlie "Bird" Parker thought he overcame the brutal murders of his wife and daughter by quitting as a NYPD detective, returning to his home of Portland, Maine and especially since h ... (read full critics)

thebestreviews published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

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The Black Angel

The 5th book in the Charlie Parker series, The Black Angel is probably the most ambitious work that author John Connolly has undertaken yet. Much of the backstory was told in the form of flashbacks with page after page of italics to medieval times and World War II which is too details and I found I ... (continue)

The 5th book in the Charlie Parker series, The Black Angel is probably the most ambitious work that author John Connolly has undertaken yet. Much of the backstory was told in the form of flashbacks with page after page of italics to medieval times and World War II which is too details and I found I won’t be lost in the story if I skip most of them. Also, there was at times simply too much character exposition for minor characters.
A young woman Alice goes missing from the streets of New York. Those who have taken her believe that nobody cares about her, and that no one will come looking for her. They are wrong. She is 'blood' to Louis, the man who stands at the right hand of private detective Charlie Parker, and Louis will tear apart anyone who stands in the way of his attempts to find her. But as Louis's violent search progresses, Parker comes to realize that the disappearance is part of an older myth that involves The Black Angels known as Ashmael and Immael who gloried in the death and destruction that they brought down on the earth in the form of wars, rape and murder. But then Immael was confronted by a Cistercian monk and in the ensuing battle fell into a vast vat of molten silver where he was trapped, cast as a silver statue, and hidden. Ever since, Ashmael has been searching for the map detailing where Immael was held. The map had been separated into fragments and scattered around the world. Should Immael be freed, an unthinkable fury would be unleashed on the world. Louis and Parker had found out that the "person" behind Alice's murder is a man known as Brightwell, a huge monstrous man with a frightening disregard for human life and an unquenchable need to kill. But more frightening about this man is that he appears to have supernatural powers that he uses to gruesome effect on his victims. Brightwell leads a secret group of people known as "Believers" who are all on the hunt for the elusive fragments of the missing map. When they track down a piece they go to any lengths to acquire it, with devastating results.

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