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 neighbour - 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...
I loved this book, it is actually the first book I have read by these authors and I am for sure heading back to read more by them. Great characters, interesting storyline with great twists and turns, just a really fun read! I am not sure if this book is actually part of a series or not, but it worked very well as a "stand alone" novel, there were just a couple mentions of things that I imagine happened in other books, but nothing that if this is the first book you read by these authors it would confuse you. Definitely one to add to your "to read" list!
