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Violence
A lot
A child abduction; a man's past involves a terrible crime against a child; psychological weight throughout
Language
Some
Some strong language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild content
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild content
Emotional Intensity
Very heavy
The specific moral problem of protecting someone who harmed a child while searching for a missing child; Parker's discomfort with the assignment and his determination to do it properly anyway
What this book is about
A man living in a small Maine town under a new identity — he served time for a horrific crime committed as a teenager and has been trying to build a life since — asks Parker for help when a girl goes missing and he becomes the obvious suspect. Parker is being asked to protect a man who did something monstrous and to find a missing child. John Connolly's eleventh Parker novel is the most explicitly about redemption and whether it is possible — whether a person who did something unforgivable can become someone else — and uses the missing child plot to apply pressure to the question.
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eleventh Charlie Parker novel by John Connolly; redemption and past crimes
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