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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...

'Once upon a time, there was a boy who lost his mother !'As twelve-year-old David takes refuge from his grief in the myths and fairytales so beloved of his dead mother, he finds the real world and the fantasy world begin to blend. That is when bad things start to happen. That is when the Crooked Man comes. And David is violently propelled into a land populated by heroes, wolves and monsters, his quest to find the legendary Book of Lost Things.

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.

They are the Reapers, the elite among killers. Men so terrifying that their names are mentioned only in whispers. The assassin Louis is one of them. But now Louis, and his partner, Angel, are themselves targets. And there is no shortage of suspects. A wealthy recluse sends them north to a town that no longer exists on a map. A town ruled by a man with very personal reasons for wanting Louis' blood spilt. There they find themselves trapped, isolated, and at the mercy of a killer feared above all others: the assassin of assassins, Bliss. Thanks to former detective Charlie Parker, help is on its way. But can Angel and Louis stay alive long enough for it to reach them?