The Black Angel Author:John Connolly When a young woman disappears from one of New York City's seamiest neighborhoods, ties of friendship and blood inevitably draw Charlie Parker into the search. Soon he discovers that her disappearance is linked to a church of bones in Eastern Europe, to a 1944 slaughter at a French monastery, and to the myth of an object known as the Black Angel... more » - considered by evil men to be beyond priceless. But the Black Angel is not a legend. It is real. It lives. It dreams. And the mystery of its existence may contain the secret of Parker's own origins.« less