CITY OF ENDLESS NIGHT

By Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

Let us just say that this, yet another masterpiece by Preston & Child, will be the perfect way to start out your New Year. That monument of oddity and intellectual greatness that is the well-known Special Agent Pendergast, once again teams up with Lieutenant Vincent D’Agosta to solve one of the strangest and goriest crimes NYC has seen.

First, we begin with a tabloid kid who has money, a bad rep, and the ability to always find herself in trouble. Well, this time the trouble was more than she could take: Grace Ozmian is found dead in an abandoned warehouse…missing her head, of all things.

D’Agosta is assigned the job of trying to figure out who the heck killed this girl, and why. He’s getting pressure from all sides being that this girl’s father is an extremely wealthy man. Not only does the lieutenant need Pendergast’s help, but Pendergast’s boss feels that his special agent has let him down as of late and needs to get back on the right path by proving that he can still do the job.

Pendergast is not himself. After all, Constance is missing from his life now and he is having a rough time without her. He has gotten skinnier, almost gaunt, and even D’Agosta is worried about his friend. Until…that friend seems to know more than the NYPD does and, once again, keeps the information to himself.

Body after body appears, and none of them seem to have anything remotely in common. All that the corpses’ share is the fact that their heads are gone and a killer seems to be outwitting everyone.

Just as it was when D’Agosta and Pendergast first met up in the thrilling book, “Relic,” they are together once again solving a crime of mammoth proportions. Preston, Child, and their well-known characters are always sheer perfection!