The Whisperers: A Charlie Parker Thriller
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John Connolly. (2010). The Whisperers: A Charlie Parker Thriller. Unabridged Simon & Schuster Audio.

John Connolly. 2010. The Whisperers: A Charlie Parker Thriller. Simon & Schuster Audio.

John Connolly, The Whisperers: A Charlie Parker Thriller. Simon & Schuster Audio, 2010.

John Connolly. The Whisperers: A Charlie Parker Thriller. Unabridged Simon & Schuster Audio, 2010.

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   • bioText: John Connolly is the author of the #1 internationally bestselling Charlie Parker thrillers series, The Book of Lost Things and its sequel The Land of Lost Things, the Samuel Johnson Trilogy for younger readers, and (with Jennifer Ridyard) the Chronicles of the Invaders series. He lives in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, see his website at JohnConnollyBooks.com, or follow him on X @JConnollyBooks.
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New York Times bestselling author John Connolly chills with this brutal, spine-tingling Charlie Parker thriller depicting a terrifying consequence of the Iraq War that nobody could have foreseen.
In the dark reaches of Maine's North Woods, a group of Iraq War veterans are engaged in a ruthless smuggling operation across the Canadian border. But what they have unleashed is far more dangerous than even they realize—an ancient evil locked away in Iraq for centuries.

Evil has dogged Charlie Parker's steps, costing him his career as a cop and his license as a private investigator. Now, as veterans begin dying mysteriously, he is called in to stop the bloodletting. But the smuggled objects have attracted the attention of the reclusive Herod and his henchman, the shadowy figure he calls the Captain. To defeat them, Parker must form an uneasy alliance with a man he fears more than any other: the killer known as the Collector.

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     September 27, 2010
     Holter Graham's breathless, bordering on melodramatic delivery is an appropriate fit for private detective Charlie Parker's latest battle with otherworldly evil. The labyrinthine plot has the sleuth confronting his old foe, the Collector, while investigating the suicides of Iraq War veterans who were also guilty of smuggling valuable artifacts out of the country. Graham is particularly effective in maintaining a rat-a-tat pacing for the novel that sounds like a mashup of Raymond Chandler and Dean Koontz. He provides Charlie with a hard-boiled but sensitive sensibility, but is equally on target with the properly disquieting raspy voice of the Collector and the serpentlike sibilance of a sinister killer named Herrod. He also has an effective interpretation for the title creatures' mutterings. Connolly sacrifices some of the novel's tension with a protracted discussion of the PTSD suffered by soldiers during the Iraq War; Graham handles those sections briskly, while maintaining their informational value. An Atria hardcover (Reviews, May 31).

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   • content: In the ninth Charlie Parker novel, the private investigator is hired by the father of a recently returned Iraqi war veteran who commits suicide. Parker soon discovers that other members of Damian Pachett's unit have also killed themselves. Were these soldiers smuggling stolen artifacts out of Iraq for profit? The story continues a trend that current writers are now focusing on--the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder. Connolly intermingles the supernatural and the search for a golden artifact, and the complex plot is a pleasure to follow. Holter Graham's narration is clear, solid, and fast paced. He's excellent at the foreign accents involved, and he makes the mysterious scary when needed. He's at his best in the last third of this offering and sometimes sounds as surprised at those events as the listener is. A.L.H. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
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     Starred review from May 31, 2010
     Ancient artifacts and the second Iraqi War provide the backdrop for Connolly's outstanding ninth novel featuring PI Charlie Parker (after The Lovers). When the former NYPD homicide detective looks into the suicide of an Iraq war veteran, he discovers that several members of the soldier's unit have also killed themselves and that they may have been involved in smuggling looted treasures into the U.S. Parker begins to fear that the returning soldiers have brought back more than their own personal demons. As he races to find an antique golden box before it falls into the wrong hands, Parker discovers that he's being shadowed by the enigmatic Collector, a repulsive killer whose nature is as problematic as that of Parker himself. Connolly displays a real knack for fusing the detective and horror genres, providing a rational chain of evidence and deduction for the plot while simultaneously creating a real atmosphere of numinous dread that reminds us that mystery can refer to more than a mundane tale of crime and human justice.

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In the dark reaches of Maine's North Woods, a group of Iraq War veterans are engaged in a ruthless smuggling operation across the Canadian border. But what they have unleashed is far more dangerous than even they realize—an ancient evil locked away in Iraq for centuries.

Evil has dogged Charlie Parker's steps, costing him his career as a cop and his license as a private investigator. Now, as veterans begin dying mysteriously, he is called in to stop the bloodletting. But the smuggled objects have attracted the attention of the reclusive Herod and his henchman, the shadowy figure he calls the Captain. To defeat them, Parker must form an uneasy alliance with a man he fears more than any other: the killer known as the Collector.

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