- Fiction, Art critics, Crimes against, Americans
A body is found in the attic of a fabulous Long Island estate. There is a hoofprint scorched into the floor, and the stench of sulfur chokes the air. When FBI Special Agent Pendergast investigates the gruesome crime, he discovers that thirty years ago four men conjured something unspeakable. Has the devil come to claim his due?
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 660
- Publisher
- Warner Vision Books, Wheeler Pub., Vision
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780759512061
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