A spectacular new Agent Pendergast thriller from the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling authors.

'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...

"A blockbuster...a lot of fun" - WASHINGTON POST

"Bestsellers Preston and Child have come up with another gripping, action-packed page-turner" - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"A highly compelling thriller...Preston and Child prove that the devil is indeed in the details" - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

"Dynamic duo Preston and Child once again demonstrate their mastery of the genre...The thrillfest runs full force to the very last page" - KIRKUS