SYNOPSIS Parker is working in a bar in Portland, having been deprived of his P.I.'s license. 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, a search that will eventually lead to revelations about Parker's own parentage. Meanwhile, a troubled young woman is running from an unseen threat, one that already seems to have taken the life of her boyfriend, and a journalist-turned-writer named Mickey Wallace is conducting an investigation of his own into Charlie Parker in the hope of writing a non-fiction book about his exploits. And haunting the shadows, as they have done throughout Parker's life, are two figures: a man and a woman, the lovers of the title, who appear to have only one purpose, and that is to bring an end to his existence. COPYRIGHT ©John Connolly 2009FIRST PUBLISHED Atria Books (US & Canada) ![]() HB - 352 pages - 02/06/2009 - ISBN: 9781416569541 Hodder & Stoughton (UK, Ireland, Australia, etc.) ![]() HB - 400 pages - 09/07/2009 - ISBN: 9780340936696 THE COLLECTED
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