Cemetery dance

Description:

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: Fiction,  Murder in fiction,  Aloysius Pendergast (Fictitious character),  Government investigators,  Obeah (Cult),  Government investigators in fiction,  Investigation,  Murder,  Suspense,  Thriller,  nyt:hardcover-fiction=2009-05-31,  New York Times bestseller,  Fiction, psychological,  Fiction, occult & supernatural,  Fiction, suspense,  New york (n.y.), fiction,  Crime, fiction,  Fiction, thrillers, suspense

Places: New York (N.Y.),  New York (State),  New York