CP04: 2002: THE WHITE ROAD
AWARDS
Winner: 2003 Barry Award (Best British Crime Novel)
SYNOPSIS
In South Carolina, a young black man faces the death penalty for the rape and murder of Marianne Larousse, daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the state. It's a case that nobody wants to touch, a case with its roots in old evil, and old evil is private detective Charlie Parker's speciality.
But Parker is about to enter a living nightmare, a red dreamscape haunted by the murderous spectre of a hooded woman, by a black car waiting for a passenger that never comes, and by the complicity of both friends and enemies in the events surrounding Marianne Larousse's death. This is not an investigation. This is a descent into the abyss, a confrontation with dark forces that threaten all that Parker holds dear: his lover, his unborn child, even his soul...
For in a prison cell far to the north, an old adversary is about to take his revenge on Charlie Parker, its instruments the very men that Parker is hunting, and a strange, hunched creature that keeps its own secrets buried by a riverbank: the undiscovered killer Cyrus Nairn.
Soon, all of these figures will face a final reckoning in southern swamps and northern forests, in distant locations linked by a single thread, a place where the paths of the living and the dead converge.
A place known only as the White Road.
COPYRIGHT
©2002 by John Connolly
FIRST PUBLISHED
Hodder & Stoughton (UK, Ireland, Australia, etc.)
HB - 416 pages - 07/03/2002 - ISBN: 0340821183
Atria Books (US & Canada)
HB - 400 pages - 11/03/2003 - ISBN: 0743456386
THE COLLECTED
UK Uncorrected Bound Manuscript PB (signed)
UK First Edition HB (signed)
US First Edition HB (signed)
CP03: 2001: THE KILLING KIND CP04a: 2004: THE REFLECTING EYE