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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. Some thing has survived the crash. And it is waiting ...

Nahoře v podkroví, oplakává dvanáctiletý David svou matku. Je opuštěný a společnost mu dělají pouze knížky. Jenže ty knížky k němu začnou šeptem promlouvat ze tmy, a poté co se David uteče do světa představ, zjistí, že skutečnost a fantazie se začaly jaksi prolínat. Čtenář se díky jedinečné představivosti autora ocitá spolu s hrdinou poněkud temného a neuvěřitelně nápaditého románu na prahu dospělosti a loučí se s dětskou nevinností. Příběh o smutku a o ztrátě, o věrnosti a lásce a o zázračné síle vyprávěných příběhů.

When Charlie Parker was still a boy, his father, an NYPD cop, killed a young couple, a boy and a girl barely older than his son, then took his own life. There was no explanation for his actions. Stripped of his private investigator's licence, and watched by the police, Parker is now working in a Portland bar, holding down a job and staying out of trouble. But in the background, he is working on his most personal case yet, an investigation into his own origins and the circumstances surrounding the death of his father, Will. It is an investigation that will reveal a life haunted by lies, by his mother's loss and his father's betrayal, by secrets kept and loyalties compromised. And by two figures in the shadows, a man and a woman, with only one purpose: to bring an end to Charlie Parker's existence...