The Black Angel: A Thriller
by:
John Connolly (author)
The Black Angel is not an object. The Black Angel is not a myth. The Black Angel lives. A young woman 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 the killer...
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The Black Angel is not an object. The Black Angel is not a myth. The Black Angel lives.
A young woman 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 the killer 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 mystery, one that is linked to an ornate church of bones in Eastern Europe, to the slaughter at a French monastery in 1944, and to the quest for a mythical prize that has been sought for centuries by evil men: the Black Angel.
Yet the Black Angel is more than a myth. It is conscious. It dreams. It is alive.
And men are not the only creatures that seek it . . .
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781444704723 (1444704729)
Publish date: 2010-02-01
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Pages no: 528
Edition language: English
Series: Charlie Parker (#5)
A young woman goes missing from the streets and her kidnappers assume there will be no repercussions, however she's a fairly close relative of one of Parker's men and that's opened a whole can of worms. What happens next is a mixture of thriller and horror, filled with ossuaries, mass murderers, an...
Oh my God, the ending broke my heart. Poor Parker :( This man really deserves a break!I haven't reviewed any of the books in this series, but I think most people know by now that I love these books (by the fact that I've read 5 of them in such a short time!). The characters are what keeps me reading...
So, I'm 5 books into the Charlie Parker saga and so far, so good.With this book, Connolly seems to have completely abandoned the realistic approach taken with the earlier books and gone full force into supernatural mode. That's not necessarily a bad thing, I mean, if it's done right anyway and Conn...
The fallen angels, god and forgiveness bit is boring stuff that drag the book down from a 4 stars. I dislike the ending, and find it lack depth or even contemplation.If angels were fallen from the shit god place, they would have used their time on Earth to learn about human, about the good bit and t...
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