El exitoso autor del New York Times, John Connolly, escribe una historia lírica y "infaliblemente convincente" (New Orleans Times-Picayune) que obliga al investigador privado Charlie Parker a examinar su inquietante pasado y todo lo que alguna vez ha creído cierto acerca de sus queridos padres: y él mismo.
Charlie Parker es un alma perdida. Privado de su licencia de investigador privado y bajo el escrutinio de la policía, Parker consigue un trabajo en un bar de Portland. Pero usa su retiro forzoso para comenzar un tipo diferente de investigación: un examen de su propio pasado y una investigación sobre la muerte de su padre, quien se quitó la vida después de aparentemente disparar a dos adolescentes desarmados. Es una búsqueda que eventualmente llevará a Parker a cuestionar todo lo que creía sobre sus queridos padres y sobre sí mismo.
Pero hay otras fuerzas en acción: una joven con problemas que huye de una amenaza invisible, uno que ya le ha quitado la vida a su novio; y un periodista convertido en escritor llamado Mickey Wallace, que está llevando a cabo una investigación propia. Y acechando a las sombras, como lo han hecho a lo largo de la vida de Parker, hay dos figuras: un hombre y una mujer que parecen impulsados a poner fin a la existencia de Charlie Parker.
Inquietante, lírico e imposible de dejar de lado. , The Lovers es John Connolly en su mejor momento.
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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.
Charlie Parker is a lost soul. Deprived of his private investigator's license and under scrutiny by the police, Parker takes a job in a Portland bar. But he uses his enforced retirement to begin a different kind of investigation: an examination of his own past and an inquiry into the death of his father, who took his own life after apparently shooting dead two unarmed teenagers. It's a search that will eventually lead Parker to question all that he believed about his beloved parents, and about himself.
But there are other forces at work: a troubled young woman who is running from an unseen threat, one that has already taken the life of her boyfriend; and a journalist-turned-writer named Mickey Wallace, who is conducting an investigation of his own. And haunting the shadows, as they have done throughout Parker's life, are two figures: a man and a woman who seem driven to bring an end to Charlie Parker's existence.
Haunting, lyrical, and impossible to put down, The Lovers is John Connolly at his best.
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