City of Endless Night

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Special Agent Pendergast must stop a serial killer who is terrorizing New York City with a trail of headless victims. When Grace Ozmian, the beautiful and reckless daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire, first goes missing, the NYPD assumes she has simply sped off on another wild adventure. Until the young woman´s body is discovered in an abandoned warehouse in Queens, the head nowhere to be found. Lieutenant CDS Vincent D´Agosta quickly takes the lead. He knows his investigation will attract fierce scrutiny, so D´Agosta is delighted when FBI Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast shows up at the crime scene assigned to the case. I feel rather like Brer Rabbit being thrown into the briar patch, Pendergast tells D´Agosta, because I have found you here, in charge. Just like when we first met, back at the Museum of Natural History. But neither Pendergast nor D´Agosta are prepared for what lies ahead. A diabolical presence is haunting the greater metropolitan area, and Grace Ozmian was only the first of many victims to be murdered . . . and decapitated. Worse still, there´s something unique to the city itself that has attracted the evil eye of the killer. As mass hysteria sets in, Pendergast and D´Agosta find themselves in the crosshairs of an opponent who has threatened the very lifeblood of the city. It´ll take all of Pendergast´s skill to unmask this most dangerous foe-let alone survive to tell the tale.