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A Time of Torment

A Charlie Parker Thriller, Book 14

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 Jerome Burnel was once a hero. He intervened to prevent multiple killings and in doing so damned himself. His life was torn apart. He was imprisoned, brutalized.

But in his final days, with the hunters circling, he tells his story to private detective Charlie Parker. He speaks of the girl who was marked for death but was saved, of the ones who tormented him, and an entity that hides in a ruined stockade.

Parker is not like other men. He died, and was reborn. He is ready to wage war.

Now he will descend upon a strange, isolated community called the Cut, and face down a force of men who rule by terror, intimidation, and murder.

All in the name of the being they serve.

All in the name of the Dead King.

(P)2016 Hodder & Stoughton©2016 Bad Dog Books Limited Crime Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Thriller Crime Exciting

Critic reviews

A story that grips you on the first page, and ends with a major jolt . . . Connolly seems to effortlessly juggle about seven different plotlines without ever losing the reader, and combines some seriously scary scenes with pithily expressed insights into human nature.
One of the writer's finest achievements . . . Connolly has always been good at the pungent evocation of place, but this self-contained community, almost existing out of time, is particularly striking, even in the Connolly lexicon of a nightmarish, phantasmagoric America. If you are a John Connolly or Charlie Parker fan . . . you will be adding it to your bedside table . . . new readers - start here. (Barry Forshaw)
The Charlie Parker series has now reached its 14th volume and never fails to impress . . . just keeps on getting better and better and increasingly haunting. What began as a particularly atmospheric series of books featuring a wounded character in search of redemption in the fogs of rural Maine and other American landscapes has turned into a major literary triumph . . . Magical, horrific, poetic, gothic. Unique and rewarding. (Maxim Jakubowski)
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Loved it! Maybe my favourite Charlie Parker Book so far... Can't wait to read the next installment

Maybe my favourite Charlie Parker Book so far...

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Superb. John Connolly back to his best again....can't wait for the next Charlie Parker book.

Brilliant beautiful writing

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I have enjoyed every book in this series and hope there will be many more
Jeff Harding is simply the best narrator

Charlie Parker avenging Angel

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Another great Charlie Parker book and Jeff Harding excellent as always. The best series out and can't wait for the next one

Best series out there

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John Connolly is the most amazing writer. I prefer reading to audio for his books, as I have loved his books since I accidentally picked up his first book when it came out and anxiously await his new books. I read the books over and over, but though I like audio, for Mr Connolly's work I need the book. I have in my head what each character sounds like, so listening to a narrator portray Angel, Louis and of course Charlie's voices is strange. This was not written in the first person, as it usually is.
I would highly recommend this to anyone that enjoys a well written, brilliantly plotted unusual book. I think to get the best from them, you have to start at the beginning of the Charlie Parker series. It unfolds better than any series I have read, and I am a bibliophile!

Excellent book by the indomitable John!!

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