內容簡介
世界上最神秘Pendergast-the聯邦調查局特別到紐約Agent-returns調查謀殺的崇拜。
威廉Smithback,紐約時報的記者,他的妻子諾拉·凱莉,一個自然歷史博物館的考古學家,殘酷的攻擊是在他們的公寓在曼哈頓的上西面。目擊者聲稱,攝像頭證實,行兇者是他們的奇怪的,陰險的人neighbor-a,報告,已經死了,被埋葬周前。當隊長勞拉Hayward導致官方調查,Pendergast中將自己'Agosta文森特D進行private-and果斷unorthodox-quest扶助真理。他們帶他們到一個蛇紋石的旅程被包圍了他們從未想到的曼哈頓不能存在的:一個神秘、封閉的崇拜和vodou Obeah沒有外人所倖存下來。
原文
Pendergast-the world's most enigmatic FBI Special Agent-returns to New York City to investigate a murderous cult.
William Smithback, aNew York Timesreporter, 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 theassailantwas 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-anddecidedlyunorthodox-quest for the truth. Their serpentine journey takes them to an enclave of Manhattan they never imagined could exist: asecretive, reclusive cult of Obeah and vodou which no outsiders have ever survived.
作者簡介
道格拉斯·普雷斯頓和林肯的孩子最暢銷的coauthors 13小說。普雷斯頓,一個常規的貢獻者的紐約人,在美國的自然歷史博物館。他是一位養狗專家誰騎騎馬穿越西部數千英里。孩子,一位前書編輯,熱愛機車、異國情調的鸚鵡,19世紀英國文學。
原文
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.
