Dangerous and driven private investigator Charlie Parker
returns in the latest gripping thriller of internationally
bestselling author John Connolly’s series, in which ungodly
fears haunt a strange and isolated community.
Jerome Burnel was once a hero. He intervened to prevent
multiple killings, and in doing so destroyed 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
stockade.
Parker is not like other men. He died, and was reborn. He is
ready to wage war.
Now he will descend upon a strange, isolated community
called the Cut, and face down a force of men who rule by
terror, intimidation, and murder.
All in the name of the being they serve. All in the name of
the Dead King.