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| Series | Special Agent Pendergast #9 |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Author | Lincoln Child Douglas Preston |
| Year | Grand Central Publishing, 2011 |
| First Published | 2009 |
| ISBN | 0446580295 |
| Goodreads ID | 2197227 |
| Google Books ID | Fb4LAQAAMAAJ |
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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…