Preston & Child continue their #1 bestselling series featuring FBI Special Agent Pendergast and
Constance Greene as they take a final stand against New York’s deadliest serial killer:
Pendergast’s own ancestor…and Constance’s greatest enemy. A desperate bargain is broken…
Constance Greene confronts Manhattan’s most dangerous serial killer Enoch Leng bartering for
her sister' s life – but she is betrayed and turned away empty-handed incandescent with
rage. A clever trap is set… Unknown to Leng Pendergast’s brother Diogenes appears
unexpectedly offering to help—for mysterious reasons of his own. Disguised as a cleric
Diogenes establishes himself in New York' s notorious Five Points slum manipulating events
like a chess master watching Leng’s every move…and awaiting his own chance to strike. A
vengeful angel will not be deterred… Meanwhile as Pendergast focuses on saving the unstable
Constance in her fanatical quest for vengeance she strikes out on her own: to rescue her
beloved siblings from a tragic fate and take savage retribution on Leng. But Leng is one step
ahead and has a surprise for them all…
