When a young woman disappears from the streets of New York city, ties of friendship and blood inevitably draw ingenious, tortured detective Charlie Parker into the search. Soon he discovers links to a church of bones in ...When a young woman disappears from the streets of New York city, ties of friendship and blood inevitably draw ingenious, tortured detective Charlie Parker into the search. Soon he discovers links to a church of bones in eastern Europe, a 1944 slaughter at a French monastery, and to the myth of an object known as The Black Angel -- considered by evil men to be beyond priceless.