City of Endless Night NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A consistently exciting and never predictable series Associated Press When Grace Ozmian the beautiful and reckless daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire first goes missi
1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A consistently exciting and never predictable series Associated Press When Grace Ozmian, the beautiful and reckless daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire, first goes missing, the NYPD assumes she has simply sped off on another wild adventure Until the young woman s body is discovered in an abandoned warehouse in Queens, the head nowhere t 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A consistently exciting and never predictable series Associated Press When Grace Ozmian, the beautiful and reckless daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire, first goes missing, the NYPD assumes she has simply sped off on another wild adventure Until the young woman s body is discovered in an abandoned warehouse in Queens, the head nowhere to be found Lieutenant CDS Vincent D Agosta quickly takes the lead He knows his investigation will attract fierce scrutiny, so D Agosta is delighted when FBI Special Agent A.X.L Pendergast shows up at the crime scene assigned to the case I feel rather like Brer Rabbit being thrown into the briar patch, Pendergast tells D Agosta, because I have found you here, in charge Just like when we first met, back at the Museum of Natural History But neither Pendergast nor D Agosta are prepared for what lies ahead A diabolical presence is haunting the greater metropolitan area, and Grace Ozmian was only the first of many victims to be murdered and decapitated Worse still, there s something unique to the city itself that has attracted the evil eye of the killer As mass hysteria sets in, Pendergast and D Agosta find themselves in the crosshairs of an opponent who has threatened the very lifeblood of the city It ll take all of Pendergast s skill to unmask this most dangerous foe let alone survive to tell the tale Get A Copy Kindle Store StoresAudibleBarnes
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The headless daughter of a millionaire is found, Pendergast who is in disgrace with the FBI after his last outing is assigned the case Although working again with his friend, Detective D Agosta, Pendergast shows little interest, taking it for the punishment it is meant to be But then, headless corpses, beheaded of wealthy New Yorkers, men who have the best security money can buy Yet, someone is managing to penetrate these systems Pendergast for much of the book is working in the backgro The head [...]
A perfect absence of compassion and empathy, and a high degree of ambition, and you get a psychopath of the highest order Two adolescent boys are running at high speed to escape the aftermath of a neighborhood prank They dart into an old abandoned property and dive into a pile of leaves that have blown into a darkened corner Their temporary refuge smells of mold and something definitely rank The leaves shift with their squirming and a dead body reveals itself The source of the screaming co A per [...]
Ever since the end of the Diogenes Trilogy, the series has been in a decline I still look forward to each new one, but each new entry has less going for it than the last In my opinion, the good ones have been Relic, Reliquary, The Cabinet of Curiosities, Still Life with Crows, the Diogenes Trilogy, and White Fire Why the decline Firstly, I think too much Pendergast is a bad thing The books where he wasn t the sole protagonist are usually much better than the ones where he is He s much mor Ever s [...]
Pendergast and D Agosta try and track down a killer who is beating impossible odds and decapitating his victims But Pendergast isn t his usual self Constance s departure at the end of the last book has affected him than he realizes For most of the book his heart isn t in tracking down the killer There s some subplots with new characters that don t seem to have a whole lot to do with the overall story Kings Park Psychiatric Center plays a role in the book This is a real place that loca Pendergast [...]
I ve read every book in this series and this is one of the better ones It can be read as a standalone The headless corpse of a young woman is found and FBI Special Agent Pendergast is assigned to work on the case with his police detective friend Vincent D Agosta because he is in the doghouse with the FBI Other murders follow and they become a classic puzzle for Pendergast to solve in his usual brilliant, wry and preternaturally perceptive manner.This book has a very exciting ending While it I ve [...]
4 Agent Pendergast and Lieutenant D Agosta are back starsThis is the seventeenth book in the Agent Pendergast series by Preston and Child and it s a good one I so enjoyed every page turning moment as I sped through this book in a day Pretty much proof of the I can t put it down aura of this novel.Aloysius Pendergast and Vincent D Agosta are are on the trail of a killer A young wealthy woman has been murdered and grisly details are found when her corpse is discovered headless in an abandoned 4 Ag [...]
Thanks to Netgalley and Grand Central Publishing for providing me a copy of this to read in exchange for an honest review.So as many of you know, the Pendergast series is one of my longest followed and most beloved series I highly recommend it to anyone who loves a good thriller with adventure and strangeness mixed right in This wasn t the strongest entry into the series, what with a relatively predictable villain and a meandering plot with some side stories that felt unnecessary, but it was s T [...]