Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child: Cemetery dance (2010, Vision)
Paperback, 577 pages
English language
Published Aug. 19, 2010 by Vision.
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.
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.
The supernatural aspects became a bit grating, the animal sacrifice was over the top. Not one of the better books in the series.
The authors can absolutely weave a tale that draws you in. If you're a stickler for plausibility, you'll probably want to pass. If you enjoy interesting thrill stories that are written well, have new twists, and keep you guessing, you'll enjoy this.
The authors can absolutely weave a tale that draws you in. If you're a stickler for plausibility, you'll probably want to pass. If you enjoy interesting thrill stories that are written well, have new twists, and keep you guessing, you'll enjoy this.
I appreciated that this book got back to the supernatural mystery theme that I loved in Brimstone.
Nothing particularly breathtaking here, not the best book in the Pendergast series from Preston & Child, but still entertaining fun.
