Pendergast, the world\'s most mysterious FBI Special Agent, investigates a murderous cult in New York City that no one has ever survived.
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..
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.
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.
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.
Pendergast, the world\'s most mysterious FBI Special Agent, investigates a murderous cult in New York City that no one has ever survived
