The Black Angel by John Connolly

The Black Angel by John Connolly

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

The Black Angel begins with the mysterious abduction of a young woman. Intrigued by the case, Charlie Parker's longtime friend and professional killer, Louis, begins a solo search for the girl. The ties of friendship inevitably draw Parker into the search, as he soon discovers that the girl's 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. 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.

As with his previous novels, John Connolly masterfully intertwines mystery, emotion, violence, and the supernatural in this raw and gripping thriller. Fast-paced, spellbinding, and elegantly written, this is John Connolly at his chilling best.

'Connolly has virtually no match when it comes to chilling his readers' -- Daily Express 'Colourful but visceral grand guignol, and definitely not to be read at night.' -- Guardian 'A Gothic horror story and a well-paced thriller. John Connolly writes beautifully ... and his violent set pieces are satisfyingly exciting and vibrantly realised.' -- Myles McWeeney, Irish Independent 'Stylishly literate gore and terror' -- Kirkus Reviews 'There is a precision to the horrors that make them one of the few sequences to have found anything interesting to say about serial killers since Thomas Harris.' -- Independent 'Dark and powerful yet beautifully written' -- Big Issue 'Great narrative talent packed with vivid scenes and sequences. An impressive feat of storytelling' -- Irish Times Weekend Review 'Satisfying and literate thrill ride' -- Evening Herald (Dublin) 'John Connolly has taken his serial hero and changed him from an ex-cop turned private eye to a supernatural detective whose own ancestry is as murky as it is fascinating. It's another bestseller of course.' -- Mark Timlin, Independent on Sunday 'One to keep you up at night' -- Tangled Web 'Private detective Charlie Parker chases strung out prostitutes and ossuary-building killers in a page-turner that harks back to the fall of the rebel angels. The action stays both speedy and gruesome' -- Time Out 'This is not just a powerful thriller, it's also a titanic battle between the forces of good and evil, with religion and the supernatural stirred into the brew... his most operatically large scale book yet.' -- Crime Time 'If all the Old Testament mumbo-jumbo recalls The Da Vinci Code, The Black Angel is still five times as suspenseful and at least ten times as compelling.' -- Kevin Sweeney, Irish Times 'The master of supernatural sleuthery' -- The Times

John Connolly was born in Dublin in 1968. His debut -EVERY DEAD THING- swiftly launched him right into the front rank of thriller writers, and all his subsequent novels have been Sunday Times bestsellers. He is the first non-American writer to win the US Shamus award.

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ISBN 13	9780340837672
ISBN 10	0340837675
Title	The Black Angel
Author	John Connolly
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Year published	2006-02-27
Number of pages	608
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