A gruesome slaughter in an Amsterdam canal house leads assassin Louis on the trail of Serbian war criminals in this masterfully constructed tale of retribution and wild justice from the author of The Dirty South.
In Amsterdam, four people are butchered in a canal house, their remains arranged around the crucified form of their patriarch, De Jaager: fixer, go-between, and confidante of the assassin named Louis. The men responsible for the murders are Serbian war criminals. They believe they can escape retribution by retreating to their homeland.
They are wrong.
For Louis has come to Europe to hunt them down: five killers to be found and punished before they can vanish into the east.
There is only one problem.
The sixth.
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 9781529398342
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 620 g
Dimensions: 238 x 156 x 36 mm
A gripping crime thriller with elements of the horror and supernatural genres cleverly blended into the mix . . . Connolly uses language with a rather dry sardonic wit colouring his writing and often bringing a wry smile to the reader's face - The Afterword
Charlie Parker . . . is one of modern crime fiction's most popular creations, a unique combination of a man who has one foot in the temporal world and the other in the spirit world . . . dark and sometimes deeply unsettling - Irish Independent
Connolly has long held a reputation for writing the best villains, and they are no disappointment in The Nameless Ones - crimefictionlover.com
Another riveting thriller from Connolly, one of the world's greatest genre writers . . . a breathless international chase thriller and, as Connolly's legion of fans already know, you will gladly go without sleep in order to finish it - hotpress.com
Connolly makes all his characters, even the most evil, multifaceted, while keeping his audience on the edge of their seats . . . This is another intelligent and haunting nail-biter. - Publishers Weekly
The perfect blend of anti-hero, unrepentant monsters, suspense, the supernatural and real insight. I can’t say enough about this book and how much I enjoyed and learned from it.
First, the bad news - Charlie Parker does not feature heavily in this book.
Now, the good news - Louis and Angel feature *heavily* in this book. And what a book it is. For die-hard fans like me, who have followed...
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This is my idea of an all-round great thriller: fast, smart and funny with plenty of terror and tension thrown in.
The anti-heroes are Louis and Angel, the semi-retired assassins from Connolly's regular series...
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