But the private detective is about to venture headlong into a living nightmare, a bloody dreamscape haunted by the specter of a hooded woman and a black car waiting for a passenger who never arrives. This is hardly a straightforward investigation into a young woman's death. This is a descent into the abyss, where forces conspire to destroy all that Parker holds dear: his lover, his unborn child, even his very soul. For at this moment, in a prison cell far to the north, an old adversary is preparing to take his final revenge on Parker.

With his previous novels, all international bestsellers, the "compulsively readable" (Publishers Weekly) John Connolly firmly staked his position among the very best crime fiction authors in the game. Now, in The White Road, Connolly more than makes good on his initial promise with a masterfully suspenseful story that draws readers inexorably toward an inevitable and shattering final reckoning located at the horrifying crossroads of the living and the dead.