Book 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 enter a living
nightmare, a red dreamscape haunted by the murderous spectre of a
hooded woman, by a black car waiting for a passenger that never comes,
and by the complicity of both friends and enemies in the events
surrounding Marianne Larousse's death.
This is not an investigation. This is 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 far to the north, the fanatical preacher Faulkner 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 the 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.
A place known only as the White Road.
