- ISBN13: 9780446580298
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product 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 week… More >>
#1 by W. LITTELL on April 14, 2010 - 3:30 am
I love the book series by these authors but I won’t pay $14 for the kindle version. I’ll buy the tree killing version from Sams Club or wait until the paperback version is out.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Anonymous on April 14, 2010 - 4:31 am
disgusting, wish i’d never bought it
i question anyone’s great opinion of this book
animal torture is not my idea of entertainment
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Harriet Klausner on April 14, 2010 - 6:25 am
In Manhattan, New York Times William Smithback and his wife Museum of Natural History anthropologist Nora Kelly arrive home after celebrating their first anniversary with plans to do more rejoicing. Instead they are attacked in their apartment building by a neighbor, out of work British actor Colin Fearing. To the horror of Kelly; her beloved spouse is killed during the assault while his crazed killer leaves.
NYPD obtains testimony from Nora and others who saw Fearing murder Smithback and the building’s surveillance tape captures Fearing leaving dripping blood everywhere. The case is solved except for one problem as FBI Agent Aloysius Pendergast and New York Police Lieutenant Vincent D’Agosta learn; Fearing died two weeks ago having been found in the Hudson River.
Fans will be stunned with the opening sequence when long time secondary character Smithback is killed. That just sets the table for a great tense police thriller as Agent Pendergast investigates how could a dead man commit murder? The above paragraphs are the beginning of a great taut tale that fans will appreciate and newcomers will look for Aloysius’ back cases (see THE WHEEL OF DARKNESS).
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by Hollister Bulldawg on April 14, 2010 - 7:01 am
Wow, this was a very disappointing book. I cannot believe junk like this is foisted on the reading public. I certainly will never read another book by these genetlemen again. What a wasteof time and money.
All the characters are stupid except the protagonist. The murderer is identified by the reader halfway through the book. There is absolutely no development of any of the characters. The plot line that the SAC of the largest FBI office in the US is a multibillionaire, never goes to work, owns a floor of the Dakota apartment building (think John and Yoko), and drives around in his Bentley looking into state murder charges is just unreal.
Please do not support this junk writing. Skip this book.
Rating: 1 / 5
#5 by Dodgerkitty on April 14, 2010 - 7:12 am
What Garbage !!! I put this book down halfway through, I haven’t done this with any other book for years. I couldn’t take it anymore. Advanced reading for an 11 year old, shameful reading for an adult. Shallow, hollow tabloid trash.
Rating: 1 / 5