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Violence
A lot
Veterans in danger; deaths connected to war trauma and supernatural elements; some violence
Language
Some
Some strong language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild content
Substance Use
Some
Drug use; the veterans are self-medicating in ways connected to the plot
Emotional Intensity
Very heavy
The weight of war and what it does to the people who fight it; the supernatural as an extension of the madness that war creates in its survivors
What this book is about
Returning Iraq veterans are dying under circumstances that suggest something more than PTSD — something they brought back from the war, in artifacts smuggled out of Iraq. Charlie Parker investigates while also navigating the specific damage that the Iraq War did to the young men who fought it. John Connolly's tenth Parker novel is the most engaged with contemporary events in the series, using the Iraq War as both setting and subject, and the collision between the supernatural world Parker inhabits and the specific madness of post-combat trauma is handled with genuine respect for what veterans experience.
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tenth Charlie Parker novel by John Connolly; Iraq War veterans context
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