Charlie Parker Returns in a Tale of Settling As a small boy, Louis witnesses an unspeakable crime that takes the life of a member of his small, southern community. He grows up, moves on, but is forever changed by the cruel and brutal nature of the act. It lights a fire deep within him that burns white and cold. Now, years later, the sins of his life are reaching into his present, bringing with them the buried secrets and half-forgotten acts of his past. Someone is hunting him, targeting his home, his businesses, and his partner, Angel. The instrument of revenge is Bliss, a killer of killers, the most feared of assassins. Bliss is a Reaper, a lethal tool to be applied toward the ultimate end, but he is also a man with a personal vendetta. Hardened by their pasts, Louis and Angel decide to strike back. But when they mysteriously disappear, their friends are forced to band together to find them. They are led by private detective Charlie Parker, a killer himself, a Reaper in waiting. Connolly creates a world where everyone is corrupt, murderers go unpunished, but betrayals are always avenged. The Reapers is sure to terrify and transfix.
Blood Debts -- Past, Present, and Future
PI Charlie Parker has a friend named Louis, and Louis has a complex past: at one time he had been a Reaper, a special brand of assassin whose life was consumed by violence; and when he was a child growing up in a time of extreme racism, someone very close to him was brutally killed. Now both dark areas of his past are making Louis's present circumstances dangerous. Someone wants revenge and will go to extreme measures to exact it.
- Genre: Fiction + Literature Themes, Mystery + Crime
- Subgenre: Suspense, Action + Thrillers, Legal + Courtroom + Crime, Types of Characters
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Edition: Abridged
- Language: English
- Format: audioCD
- Release Date: July 13, 2010
- Date Published: July 13, 2010
- Author: John Connolly
- Narrator: Jay O. Sanders (Narrator)