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The Wrath of Angels

John Connolly

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In the depths of the Maine woods, the wreckage of an aeroplane is discovered. There are no bodies, and no such plane has ever been reported missing, but men both good and evil have been seeking it for a long, long time. What the wreckage conceals is more important than money: it is power. Hidden in the plane is a list of names, a record of those who have struck a deal with the Devil. Now a battle is about to commence between those who want the list to remain secret and those who believe that it represents a crucial weapon in the struggle against the forces of darkness. The race to secure the prize draws in private detective Charlie Parker, a man who knows more than most about the nature of the terrible evil that seeks to impose itself on the world, and who fears that his own name may be on the list. It lures others too: a beautiful, scarred woman with a taste for killing; a silent child who remembers his own death; and the serial killer known as the Collector, who sees in the list new lambs for his slaughter. But as the rival forces descend upon this northern state, the woods prepare to meet them, for the forest depths hide other secrets. Someone has survived the crash.
Something has survived the crash. And it is waiting ...

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Sigrid conde rated this book

This is a Real Teetasse clencher

Kendra Mechelle Reece rated this book

looks good:)

jim.munchel rated this book

THE WRATH OF ANGELS

By John Connolly

It usually never takes me over two months to read a John Connolly/Charlie Parker thriller but now that there is a almost thirteen pound bundle of emotions most of them smiles creating joy in my life, finding the time to read has taken a back seat.

THE WRATH OF ANGELS is due in stores and online close to January 2013. It is always a privilege to acquire an advanced reading copy of a John Connolly novel and usually I have it finished in a total of three days…..

To say that the latest Charlie Parker thriller is Mr. Connolly’s best work of crime fiction to date is an understatement. Not only is Mr. Parker back but also the cast of personal favorites, career hit men Angel and Louis as his personal ‘bodyguards’ but also characters from earlier novels. It takes a true talent to write about hit men who happen to be gay and complete polar opposites, one fastidious, one casual and life partners into credible beings worth caring about.

The plot, a commuter plane crashed and missing for years. The crash site is in the dense, haunted thickets of the Maine woods. The woods rumored haunted by a little lost girl in need of someone to play with.

Aboard, the passengers are missing along with a great deal of cash and a list…along with evidence that someone has escaped? Who escaped and what was the list and why are people dying whose names were written on the list and why has this turn of events caused so many so much unhappiness and reason for killing?

Who is The Collector and what does he want with the list? And most important who is The God of the Wasps? “Know Me”

THE WRATH OF ANGELS is a superior thriller, dark, macabre and with just enough horror elements to compete in two different genres.

I believe it pays homage to one of John Connolly’s great stand alone horror thrillers BAD MEN. Nobody writes crime fiction so eloquently!

jelleybean rated this book

i think that this book sounds so teeth clenching!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!