The ReapersThe Reapers
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Book, 2008
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NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLING AUTHOR JOHN CONNOLLY DELIVERS A POETIC AND OMINOUS NOVEL ABOUT A CHAIN OF KILLINGS, LINKED OBSCURELY BY GREAT DISTANCES AND THE PASSAGE OF YEARS, AND THE SETTLING OF THEIR BLOOD-DEBTS -- PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE.As a small boy, Louis is forever changed when he witnesses a brutal crime that takes the life of a member of his small, southern community. Now, years later, the sins of his life are reaching into his present, bringing with them the buried secrets of his past.Someone is hunting him, targeting his home, his businesses, and his partner, Angel. The instrument of revenge is Bliss, a killer of killers, the most feared of assassins -- a Reaper.Hardened by their pasts, Louis and Angel decide to strike back, but their camaraderie offers no shelter from the fate that stalks them. When they mysteriously disappear, their friends band together to find them, led by private detective Charlie Parker, a Reaper in waiting.Connolly's triumphant prose and unerring rendering of his tortured characters mesmerize and chill. He creates a world where everyone is corrupt and murderers go unpunished, but betrayals are always avenged. Yet another masterpiece from a proven talent,The Reaperswill terrify and transfix.
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