The Wrath of Angels

A wrecked plane discovered in the Maine woods has been missing for years, carrying no reported dead because it was never officially acknowledged. Hidden inside is a list of names: people who have made deals with the Devil, a register both sides in an ancient war desperately want. Charlie Parker enters the race to find it, knowing his own name may be among the damned. John Connolly's eleventh Parker novel is one of the most explicitly theological entries in the series, staging a battle between evil and something that might be grace.

Jay Snyder handles the supernatural escalation of the Parker series with the right combination of dread and restraint, keeping the horror grounded in specific characters and Maine landscape rather than abstraction. His Parker is weary but purposeful, and Snyder gives the novel's more mythological moments their full weight without losing the human stakes. At nearly fourteen hours, this is one of the more ambitious entries in the series.