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Название книги: The Black Angel
Автор(ы): John Connolly
Жанр: Триллер
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Black-Angel-196055.html
The fifth book in the Charlie Parker series
For Sue Fletcher,with gratitude and affection
I
No one can know the origin of evilwho has not grasped the truth aboutthe so-called Devil and his angels.– Origen (186-255)
PROLOGUE
The rebel angels fell, garlanded with fire.And as they descended, tumbling through the void, they were cursed as the newly blind are cursed, for just as the darkness is more terrible for those who have known the light, so the absence of grace is felt more acutely by those who once dwelt in its warmth. The angels screamed in their torment, and their burning brought brightness to the shadows for the first time. The lowest of them cowered in the depths, and there they created their own world in which to dwell.As the last angel fell, he looked to heaven and saw all that was to be denied him for eternity, and the vision was so terrible to him that it burned itself upon his eyes. And so, as the skies closed above him, it was given to him to witness the face of God disappear among gray clouds, and
Название книги: The Black Angel
Автор(ы): John Connolly
Жанр: Триллер
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Black-Angel-196055.html
The fifth book in the Charlie Parker series
For Sue Fletcher,with gratitude and affection
I
No one can know the origin of evilwho has not grasped the truth aboutthe so-called Devil and his angels.– Origen (186-255)
PROLOGUE
The rebel angels fell, garlanded with fire.And as they descended, tumbling through the void, they were cursed as the newly blind are cursed, for just as the darkness is more terrible for those who have known the light, so the absence of grace is felt more acutely by those who once dwelt in its warmth. The angels screamed in their torment, and their burning brought brightness to the shadows for the first time. The lowest of them cowered in the depths, and there they created their own world in which to dwell.As the last angel fell, he looked to heaven and saw all that was to be denied him for eternity, and the vision was so terrible to him that it burned itself upon his eyes. And so, as the skies closed above him, it was given to him to witness the face of God disappear among gray clouds, and
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