Synopsis After New York Times reporter William Smithback and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Pendergast--the world's most enigmatic FBI Special Agent--returns to New York City to investigate a murderous Obeah cult.
In his ninth investigative adventure from thriller tag-team authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, United States FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast, Ph. D., and his buddy NYPD officer Vincent D'Agosta doggedly investigate a case that seems completely in the bag. When a man is viciously stabbed in his Manhattan home, there is an eye witness and camera footage catching the killer at the scene of the crime. Unfortunately, this murderer died two weeks earlier...Soon Pendergast and D'Agosta uncover a cultish alternate reality secretively thriving in the Big Apple.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2009-05-12 |
| Size | | Length: | 435 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 23.0 oz |
Publisher's Note In the wake of a brutal attack on a prominent Manhattan journalist and his wife, clues identify the assailant as a man who had been believed dead, in a case that prompts Captain Hayward, Pendergast, and D'Agosta to infiltrate a deadly cult.
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