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‘A blockbuster…a lot of fun’ WASHINGTON POST
FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast – recently returned to New York – and Lieutenant Vincent D’Agosta find themselves investigating the murder of a friend when reporter William Smithback and his wife Nora are brutally attacked in their apartment. The assailant is identified by eyewitnesses as their strange, sinister neighbour – a man who, by all accounts, died ten days earlier.
Shunning the official inquiry, Pendergast and D’Agosta undertake their own private – and unorthodox – quest for the truth. Their journey takes them deep into the dark and mysterious underbelly of Manhattan, to a secretive, reclusive cult of Obeah and voodoo which no outsiders have ever survived…
FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast – recently returned to New York – and Lieutenant Vincent D’Agosta find themselves investigating the murder of a friend when reporter William Smithback and his wife Nora are brutally attacked in their apartment. The assailant is identified by eyewitnesses as their strange, sinister neighbour – a man who, by all accounts, died ten days earlier.
Shunning the official inquiry, Pendergast and D’Agosta undertake their own private – and unorthodox – quest for the truth. Their journey takes them deep into the dark and mysterious underbelly of Manhattan, to a secretive, reclusive cult of Obeah and voodoo which no outsiders have ever survived…
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Bestsellers Preston and Child have come up with another gripping, action-packed page-turner
A highly compelling thriller...Preston and Child prove that the devil is indeed in the details
A blockbuster...a lot of fun
Dynamic duo Preston and Child once again demonstrate their mastery of the genre...The thrillfest runs full force to the very last page