N O V E L S T H E     L O V E R S (UK) Now available in paperback! Parker is working in a bar in Portland, having been deprived of his P.I.'s license. He uses his enforced retirement to begin a different kind of investigation: an examination of his own past and an inquiry into the death of his father, who took his own life after apparently shooting dead two unarmed teenagers, a search that will eventually lead to revelations about Parker's own parentage. Meanwhile, a troubled young woman is running from an unseen threat, one that already seems to have taken the life of her boyfriend, and a journalist-turned-writer named Mickey Wallace is conducting an investigation of his own into Charlie Parker in the hope of writing a non-fiction book about his exploits. (US) And haunting the shadows, as they have done throughout Parker's life, are two figures: a man and a woman, the lovers of the title, who appear to have only one purpose, and that is to bring an end to his existence . . . Read the prologue. Support an independent bookstore, or buy online from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. Published in the US & Canada by Atria Books, June 2009. Published in the UK, Ireland, Australia, etc. by Hodder & Stoughton, July 2009.