Cemetery dance

By Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston

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

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.