Cemetery DanceFBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast returns to New York City. NY Times reporter William Smithback and his wife, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are found brutally attacked in their Manhattan apartment. Eyewitnesses claim, and the security camera confirms, that the killer seen leaving the building was their strange neighbour who apparently died two weeks before. Captain Hayward leads the official homicide investigation, while Pendergast and D'Agosta undertake a private quest for the truth. Their serpentine journey takes them into a part of Manhattan they never imagined could exist: a secretive and deadly hotbed of Obeah, the West Indian Zombi cult of sorcery and magic. And it is here they find their true peril is just beginning... |
