The white road
By: John Connolly.
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
Subjects: Parker, Charlie "Bird" (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.; Private investigators -- South Carolina -- Fiction.; Race relations -- Fiction.; South Carolina -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In South Carolina, a young black man faces the death penalty for the rape and murder of Marianne Larousse, daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the state. It's a case that nobody wants to touch, a case with its roots in old evil, and old evil is private detective Charlie Parker's speciality. But Parker is about to make a descent into the abyss, a confrontation with dark forces that threaten all that Parker holds dear: his lover, his unborn child, even his soul ... For in a prison cell, a fanatical preacher is about to take his revenge on Charlie Parker, its instruments the very men that Parker is hunting, and a strange, hunched creature that keeps its own secrets buried by a riverbank: the undiscovered killer Cyrus Nairn. Soon, all of these figures will face a final reckoning in southern swamps and northern forests, in distant locations linked by a single thread, a place where the paths of the living and the dead converge.