Pendergast

Manhattan. Les ouvriers d'un chantier de démolition s'affairent parmi les gravats, lorsque le bulldozer se fige soudainement devant l'horreur du spectacle qui apparaît ; des ossements humains. L'enquête menée par Pendergast, du FBI, l'archéologue Nora Kelly et le journaliste William Smithback établit qu'il s'agit des restes de trente-six adolescents, victimes d'un tueur en série, le Dr Leng, ayant sévi à New York vers 1880. Les jours suivants, plusieurs meurtres sont commis selon le mode opératoire de Leng. Se peut-il que ce dingue soit toujours vivant ? Ou aurait-il fait des émules ?

Medicine Creek, un coin paisible du Kansas. Aussi, quand le shérif Hazen découvre le cadavre dépecé d'une inconnue au milieu d'un champ de maïs, il se demande s'il ne rêve pas : le corps est entouré de flèches indiennes y sur lesquelles ont été empalés des corbeaux. Œuvre d'un fou ? Rituel satanique ? Il faut le flair de Pendergast, l'agent du FBI, pour comprendre que cette sinistre mise en scène annonce une suite. Qui sème parmi les habitants une épouvante d'autant plus vive qu'il ne fait pas l'ombre d'un doute, pour Pendergast, que le tueur est l'un d'eux...

FBI Special Agent Pendergast hunts a killer in Manhattan, only to confront his most formidable foe: his own brother. With one brother as a top agent and the other as a cunning criminal, a deep-seated animosity fuels a perfect crime, leading to a thrilling showdown.

Psychotic killer Diogenes faces down his incarcerated FBI agent brother, while the Museum of Natural History reopens a long-closed tomb exhibit, a decision that coincides with a series of murders and sparks rumors about an ancient curse.

Perched like a black crow on a crag in the most hostile depths of the Himalayas stands a monastery. For a thousand years the monks have kept guard. Now their sanctum has been violated, the secret carried off. After a millennium of hiding from the world, the guardians of the treasure will have to turn to an outsider for help. Luckily Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast is no stranger. Having trained body and mind in Tibet, he knows the land well. But neither he nor his ward, Constance, are prepared for the truth about what the monks have been protecting. The pursuit of the stolen artefact takes Pendergast and Constance far from the snowy wastes, to where the largest-ever ocean liner is preparing for her maiden voyage. As Pendergast and Constance board, they know they are joined by a cargo of secrets and murderers. As the ship slips into the night, it becomes a deadly race to recover the secret of the monks, or blackness to threaten to fall not just over the ship, but the wider world... A stunning dance of death and mystery, THE WHEEL OF DARKNESS takes the most unusual investigator around on his most thrilling case yet...

At a family reunion, Special Agent Pendergast is finally overcoming the loss of his wife, who was mauled to death by a lion during an African safari. However, when Pendergast discovers that his wife's rifle was intentionally loaded with blanks, he is forced to reopen old wounds in an effort to locate those responsible for the violent killing

After his wife, Helen, is brazenly abducted before his eyes, Special Agent Pendergast furiously pursues the kidnappers, chasing them across the country and into Mexico. But then, things go terribly, tragically wrong; the kidnappers escape; and a shattered Pendergast retreats to his New York apartment and shuts out the world.But when a string of bizarre murders erupts across several Manhattan hotels - perpetrated by a boy who seems to have an almost psychic ability to elude capture - NYPD Lieutenant D'Agosta asks his friend Pendergast for help. Reluctant at first, Pendergast soon discovers that the killings are a message from his wife's kidnappers. But why a message? And what does it mean?When the kidnappers strike again at those closest to Pendergast, the FBI agent, filled anew with vengeful fury, sets out to track down and destroy those responsible. His journey takes him deep into the trackless forests of South America, where he ultimately finds himself face to face with an old evil that - rather than having been eradicated - is stirring anew... and with potentially world-altering consequences.

Aloysius Pendergast est contacté par un sculpteur a qui on a volé une collection de vins rares. Il se rend a Exmouth, petit village de pecheurs situé au nord de Salem, dans le Massachusetts. Peu apres son arrivée, un historien enquetant sur le naufrage d'un navire a la fin du XIXe siecle est assassiné. Son corps mutilé, couvert de symboles sataniques, est retrouvé dans des marécages hantés par une bete humaine. Puis c'est au tour du notaire local de subir le meme sort... Au milieu des sabbats d'adorateurs de Lucifer et du démon Morax, Pendergast ne risque-t-il pas d'etre pris dans un piege mortel ?

The latest novel in Preston & Child's Pendergast series picks up from the cliffhanger-ending of CRIMSON SHORE and doesn't let up. The authors keep readers guessing... The crisp writing and exemplary stories are still in abundance in this consistently exciting and never predictable series.-Jeff Ayers, Associated Press

Na zvláštního agenta FBI Aloysia Pendergasta dolehly těžké časy. Nové vedení Newyorské terénní úřadovny není vůbec nakloněno jeho výstředním způsobům vyšetřování. I když Pendergast dosahuje pozoruhodné úspěšnosti ve svých případech, má také vysokou úmrtnost podezřelých. A to se jeho vedoucím nelíbí. Pokud chce Pendergast pokračovat ve své práci, musí se smířit s tím, že odteď bude pracovat s parťákem. A Pendergast rozhodně chce ve své kariéře pokračovat. Už kvůli tomu, že nový případ je v každém ohledu bizarní. S mladým agentem Coldmoonem dostane za úkol vyšetřit sérii vražd v Miami Beach. Pachatel vyřezává svým obětem srdce a nechává je s ručně psanými vzkazy na místních náhrobcích. Jednotlivé hroby nemají zdánlivě nic společného – až na to, že ve všech odpočívají ženy, které před lety spáchaly sebevraždu. Mají staré a nové případy něco společného? A jak s nimi souvisejí literární dopisy vraha, který se podepisuje pan Srdcelap? Ve velkolepém finále oba agenti bojují bok po boku o holý život – odhalí totiž tajemství, které má zůstat navždy pohřbené ve floridských bažinách.