CP08: 2009: THE LOVERS
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 2009
FIRST 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
US First Edition HB (signed at Great Lost Bear and dated 02/06/2009 - US publication date)
2x Bumper Stickers from Great Lost Bear to mark their publication date event on 02/06/2009 (both signed)
UK First Edition HB (Signed and dated 09/07/2009 - UK publication date)
Flyer for 'Meet John Connolly' event on 15/07/2009 at Waterstones, High Street, Birmingham, UK (signed)
Hodder & Stoughton event board used at event 15/07/2009 (unsigned)
Flyer for 'Meet John Connolly' event on 17/07/2009 at Waterstones, Bold Street, Liverpool, UK (unsigned)