Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Preston, Douglas; Child, Lincoln |
| Publisher: | Plaza & Janés |
| Date: | 3/23/2020 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
La hija de un millonarioaparece muerta. Y sin cabeza.
La nueva frenética novela delinspector Pendergast.
Cuando Grace Ozmian, labella pero temeraria hija de un millonario, desaparece, la policía asume que la chica se ha dejado llevar de nuevo por sus ansias de aventura. Hasta queencuentran en un almacén su cadáver decapitado.
Vincent D’Agostalidera la investigación junto con el agente especial Pendergast, pero ninguno de ellos estápreparado para lo que les espera: unser diabólico está aterrorizando el área metropolitana de Nueva York y Graceha sido su primera víctima.
Antes de que el pánico se extienda,Pendergast tendrá que hacer acopio de sus habilidades para desenmascarar alenemigo de la ciudad que no descansa y vivir para contarlo.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
In this#1 New York Times bestseller, Special Agent Pendergast must stop a serialkiller who is terrorizing New York City with a trail of headlessvictims.
When Grace Ozmian, the beautiful and reckless daughter of a wealthy techbillionaire, first goes missing, the NYPD assumes she has simply sped off onanother wild adventure. Until the young woman’s body is discovered in anabandoned warehouse in Queens, the head nowhere to be found.
Lieutenant CDS Vincent D’Agosta quickly takes the lead. He knows hisinvestigation will attract fierce scrutiny, so D’Agosta is delighted when FBISpecial Agent A.X.L. Pendergast shows up at the crime scene assigned to thecase. “I feel rather like Brer Rabbit being thrown into the briarpatch,” Pendergast tells D’Agosta, “because I have found you here,in charge. Just like when we first met, back at the Museum of NaturalHistory.”
But neither Pendergast nor D’Agosta are prepared for what lies ahead. A diabolicalpresence is haunting the greater metropolitan area, and Grace Ozmian was onlythe first of many victims to be murdered . . . and decapitated. Worse still,there’s something unique to the city itself that has attracted the evil eyeof the killer.
As mass hysteria sets in, Pendergast and D’Agosta find themselves in thecrosshairs of an opponent who has threatened the very lifeblood of the ‘ll take all of Pendergast’s skill to unmask this most dangerous foe-letalone survive to tell the tale.
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