- Fiction, Murder in fiction, Aloysius Pendergast (Fictitious character), Government investigators
Pendergast-the world's most enigmatic FBI Special Agent-returns to New York City to investigate a murderous cult. William Smithback, a New York Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan 's Upper West Side . Eyewitnesses claim, and the security camera confirms, that the assailant was their strange, sinister neighbor-a man who, by all reports, was already dead and buried weeks earlier. While Captain Laura Hayward leads the official investigation, Pendergast and Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta undertake their own private-and decidedly unorthodox-quest for the truth. Their serpentine journey takes them to an enclave of Manhattan they never imagined could exist: a secretive, reclusive cult of Obeah and vodou which no outsiders have ever survived.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 577
- Publisher
- Vision, Grand Central Pub., Grand Central Publishing
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780446519298
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