John Connolly: A Time Of Torment: A Charlie Parker Thriller: 14. Z20 [2017] paperback Condition:Very Good Alix Nathan has created an

Alix Nathan has created an utterly transporting historical novel which is both elegant and unforgettably sinister

erudite and at times slyly funny

while the Lord Chancellor of England counted himself fortunate to have known him

recognize our species' utter reliance on the earth as it is

He spends his nights winning money in a floating fight club

John Connolly: A Time Of Torment: A Charlie Parker Thriller: 14. Z20 [2017] paperback Condition:Very Good Alix Nathan has created anThe Number One bestseller, now out in paperback. Jerome Burnel was once a hero. He intervened to prevent multiple killings and in doing so damned himself. His life was torn apart. He was imprisoned, brutalized. But in his final days, with the hunters circling, he tells his story to private detective Charlie Parker. He speaks of the girl who was marked for death but was saved, of the ones who tormented him, and an entity that hides in a ruined