Flashback! The Adventures Of Young Parker But Though Callow He Is Driven By Grief And Wrath which are only two of the deadly sins. Black girls are being murdered and only a wandrin' white dude cares enough to stop and be persuaded to help solve the case nobody wants solved because t might harm the money Bubba Clinton in that there White House is going to send their way. Presumably this is in service to Connolly's occasional yen to do a more straightforwardly traditional crime thriller without the supernatual spookiness that give his books such a distinctive feel, and in fairness he pulls it off and still drenches it in atmosphere and violence.