‘A blockbuster…a lot of fun’ WASHINGTON POSTFBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast – recently returned to New York – and Lieutenant Vincent D’Agosta find themselves investigating the murder of a friend when reporter William Smithback and his wife Nora are brutally attacked in their apartment. The assailant is identified by eyewitnesses as their strange, sinister neighbour – a man who, by all accounts, died ten days earlier.Shunning the official inquiry, Pendergast and D’Agosta undertake their own private – and unorthodox – quest for the truth. Their journey takes them deep into the dark and mysterious underbelly of Manhattan, to a secretive, reclusive cult of Obeah and voodoo which no outsiders have ever survived…