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 assassin Louis, who stands at the right hand of private detective Charlie Parker. Parker is drawn inexorably into the search and 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--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, The Black Angel is John Connolly at his chilling best.ret of Parker's own origins.