Cemetery dance
About this book
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.
Subjects
- aloysius pendergast (fictitious character)
- crime, fiction
- fiction
- fiction, occult & supernatural
- fiction, psychological
- fiction, suspense
- fiction, thrillers, suspense
- government investigators
- government investigators in fiction
- investigation
- murder
- murder in fiction
- new york (n.y.), fiction
- new york times bestseller
- nyt:hardcover-fiction=2009-05-31
- obeah (cult)
- suspense
- thriller