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.
關於作者:
DOUGLAS PRESTON and LINCOLN CHILD are bestselling coauthors of
13 novels. Preston, a regular contributor to The New Yorker, worked
for the American Museum of Natural History. He is an expert
horseman who has ridden thousands of miles across the West. Child,
a former book editor, is passionate about motorcycles, exotic
parrots, and nineteenth-century English literature. The authors
encourage readers to visit and send them e-mail at their Web site,
www.prestonchild.com.