ISBN: 1788546776 9781788546775

Category: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General

Page count: 352

<p>After an overhaul of leadership at the FBI's New York field office, <b>Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is forced to accept an unthinkable condition</b> of continued employment: the unorthodox lone wolf <b>must now work with a partner.</b></p> <p>Pendergast and his new cohort, Special Agent Coldmoon, are dispatched to Florida to investigate <b>a rash of ritualistic murders</b>. A killer is <b>carving out the hearts of his victims</b>, and depositing the stolen organs alongside the headstones of existing graves. Accompanying each heart is <b>a cryptic letter, signed by a 'Mr Brokenhearts'</b>. There is one more intriguing aspect to Mr Brokenhearts' macabre modus operandi: the chosen graves <b>all belong to women who have committed suicide.</b></p> <p>As he searches for the connection between the old suicides and the new murders, Pendergast realizes the brutal new crimes may be just the tip of the iceberg: that he faces <b>a conspiracy of death reaching back decades.</b></p> <p><b>'Fast-moving, sophisticated and bursting with surprises... There's nothing else like them' <i>WASHINGTON POST</i>.</b></p> <p><b>'One of thrillerdom's most exciting and intriguing series leads, and it remains among the most reliable in the genre' <i>BOOKLIST</i>.</b></p>