The original title of this novel is "The White Road", The White Road, which has an important symbolic role here because the author presents us as the place where the dead stand side by side with the living, their presence being in the air that touches their faces, the flowing water near them: the children ran away or future, beings lost and found, those who do not know the rest until justice is done. It is this, The White Road, the place where justice is done, where the living and the dead walk together ... We can say that the atmosphere of this novel is planted! Charlie Parker himself is on the white road, and from the heinous murders of his wife and daughter, he has this empathy that allows him to feel and see those around him, in the shadows, waiting justice. More than ever in this novel, Connolly moved a dark atmosphere, terribly dark and sticky, with fantastic contours, but without pay either in the supernatural. His novel oscillates constantly between these two worlds, and its plot, tortuous desire, led once again Parker border evil, dissecting human darkness in a world where the crimes of yesterday haunt the living and influence the present. His characters are of remarkable depth, especially those of Louis and Angel, Parker's friends who, by revealing some of their past, take on a particular consistency. Even the "bad guys" are beyond caricature and become more disturbing and terrifying. John Connolly is here at the top of his, who is one of the few to dare to skillfully mix in his works the power and the suspense thriller analyzes and critical social or histoiriques specific to black novels, all bathed in an atmosphere with X-Files. Moreover, America that it portrayed in this novel is spooky ... A great Connolly, a great vintage Black!
