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NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLING AUTHOR JOHN CONNOLLY WRITES AN
"UNFAILINGLY COMPELLING" ("New Orleans Times-Picayune") AND LYRICAL
TALE THAT FORCES PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR CHARLIE PARKER TO EXAMINE HIS
HAUNTING PAST AND ALL THAT HE HAS EVER BELIEVED TRUE ABOUT HIS
BELOVED PARENTS--AND HIMSELF.
Stripped of his license, Charlie Parker takes a job in a Portland
bar. Alone and directionless, he faces at last a shadow he has
lived with since his childhood: what made his father, a respected
police officer, apparently shoot dead two unarmed teens and then
commit suicide. His quest leads him back to the little New York
town where he grew up, to the secret history of the NYPD, and to
the existence of mysterious friends and hidden enemies.
For waiting in the shadows, as they have been throughout Charlie's
life, are a man and a woman with only one purpose: to bring an end
to his very existence. . . .