City of Endless Night

Douglas Preston · Lincoln Child

Jan 2018 · Pendergast series Book 17 · Sold by Grand Central Publishing

About this ebook

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.

Ratings and reviews

I have always liked the Special Agent Pendergast series. However, the last two books have been a little disappointing. ENDLESS NIGHTS was a book that I didn't mind taking a break to do chores or watch TV. RELIC was just the opposite. This book had my heart racing and caused me to lose sleep. I also loved the humor in STILL LIFE WITH CROWS. Although I wasn't impressed with the the last two books, I still have hope that the next one will not disappoint. I appreciate the authors sharing their gifts of story weaving. For the next books, I would like to see Pendergast back to his old self I love his confidence, southern manners and charms, and his physical and mental strength.

Chapter 20, next to last sentence of the first paragraph: "sister chair." Really? REALLY?!? Chairs, like the VAST majority of other nouns, have NO GENITALIA AT ALL. WHAT. LINGUISTIC. SEXISM. Plus, it's pretty !such the same thing yet again. Fail.

I have read all of their books, this one is Good but not as well done as the previous ones they need the sifi edge as the first series

About the author

Douglas Preston and Lincolnd Child are the #1 bestselling coauthors of the Pendergast novels, as well as the Gideon Crew series. Preston & Child's Relic and The Cabinet of Curiosities were chosen by readers in a National Public Radio poll as being among the one hundred greatest thrillers ever written, and Relic was made into a number-one box office hit movie. Readers can sign up for The Pendergast File at A href="http://www.PrestonChild.com"www.PrestonChild.com/a, and follow them on Facebook.