About this title: Aloysius Pendergast--the world's most enigmatic FBI special agent--returns to New York City to investigate a murderous cult. His serpentine journey takes him into a secretive and deadly hotbed of Obeah, the West Indian Zombii cult of sorcery and magic. And it is here he finds his true peril is just beginning.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780446580298ISBN:0446580295
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780446580298ISBN:0446580295
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 435 p. Audience: General/trade. Very good condition hardcover with dustjacket. Not book club; not price clipped. Inside is clean with no writing or markings. Definite top shelfwear to DJ read more
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, New York
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780446580298ISBN:0446580295
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Date Published: 2009-05-12
ISBN-13:9780446580298ISBN:0446580295
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Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, New York
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780446580298ISBN:0446580295
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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780446580298ISBN:0446580295
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: N.Y. : Grand Central Publishing, 2009
ISBN-13:9780446580298ISBN:0446580295
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. First edition, first printing. Fine in Fine DJ, a very clean unused copy. A novel featuring FBI Special Agent Pendergast. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Date Published: 2009-05-12
ISBN-13:9780446580298ISBN:0446580295
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780446580298ISBN:0446580295
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Read once. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 435 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
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Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780446580298ISBN:0446580295
Description: New in New dust jacket. New, Unread Copy. First Edition, First Printing with Full number line. Not price clipped. Not remaindered. No wear or tears; no marks or writing. Ninth in Inspector Pendergast series.; Pendergast Series; 435 pages. read more
"It has been 2 years since the last Pendergast novel and although it was slow in coming it was worth the wait, although not in the same vein as some of the other Pendergast books. For those who have not read the previous novels involving Agent Pendergast, have no fear as each novel is of itself and perhaps this will start your Pendergast odyssey. Enjoy it! I sure did."
"Zombies in Upper Manhattan. (Hey, it's summer.) A relatively weak entry in the Agent Pendergast series, which is usually distinguished by its weirdly exuberant combination of police-procedural structure and supernatural, The-Thing-That-Lived-In-the-Subways plotting. This one has some interesting historical background on the Inwood neighborhood at the northern tip of Manhattan, an area I don't know at all despite have grown up in New York, but there's something enervated about the story and the writing, as if the authors didn't really have an inspiration this time around and dredged the book up from the bottom of endless cups of coffee to fulfill their obligation to the publisher. Even the eccentric and brilliant Pendergast, one of the more original and compelling detective characters going, seems colorless and sort of exhausted. Part of the problem may be that for the first time that I can remember in this series Preston & Child don't stand by their supernatural premise, a curious decision since its one of the things that sets the series apart in its overcrowded field. A disappointment."
"Readers get set to lose a popular character in the Preston-Child novels. William Smithback, Jr. dies in the first few pages of Cemetery Dance. Nora Kelly, Smithback's wife, barely escaped from the crazed murderer. Nora thinks she recognized the killer as Colin Fearing, a neighbor in the building.
Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta is in charge of the case and takes great care in checking out the evidence even though he feels it is an open and shut case since Nora can identify the killer. D'Agosta is surprised when Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast appears on the scene. He is even more surprised when Pendergast presents a death certificate showing that Colin Fearing has been dead for ten days.
It seems the impossible has happened. A murder has been committed by a dead man. Is there really such a thing as zombies? It seems there can be no other answer when dead people keep appearing as though alive and with violent intentions.
Pendergast even goes so far as to consult Aunt Cornelia as well as call in a friend from his childhood who is an expert on cases such as that of Colin Fearing. Nora insists on joining in the investigation and finds a group living in a secluded area in Manhattan who is conducting animal sacrifices. Gaining information on this very secretive group is dangerous to say the least.
Pendergast somehow manages by the end of the book to explain the unexplainable. The ending is one that came as a complete surprise but satisfied a lot of my curiosity about the events in this novel.
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child have written a number of novels with Special Agent Pendergast. If you have read the previous books, you will run across characters that you have read about before but it is not necessary to read the previous books to enjoy Cemetery Dance.
"I am a big fan of the Lincoln/Child Penderast novels. They are always fun, full of action, and of course, they feature Agent Pendergast, who happens to be a favorite character of mine. You can learn more about Agent Pendergast here. All that being said, I did enjoy this novel, but not as much as previous offerings from the authors.
Cemetary Dance begins with an attack on a pair of familiar characters (one of my favorite things about these guys, they are never afraid to do away with someone for the sake of the story), William Smithback and Nora Kelly, which leaves Smithback dead. This isn't much of a spoiler as it happens in the first ten pages of the novel. D'Agosta and Pendergast quickly find themselves investigating the case in an effort to protect the bereaved Nora, and to find justice for their murdered friend. Their investigation will lead them to a mysterious religious community located in the forgotten and isolated wilderness of a New York city park; a community which seems to have ties to the mystic beliefs of Obeah. They also find themselves forced to confront the notion of modern day zombiis as the body count mounts.
Personally, I didn't find the mystery as compelling in this novel, as compared to previous story lines. Still, the authors did do a great job of keeping me turning pages. Pendergast was certainly in fine form, and there were plenty of his trademark antics to keep me smiling and anxious for more. The book ended with the promise of more to come, and it is safe to say I'll be running to the bookstore for their next Pendergast novel when it arrives.
If you haven't read a Lincoln/Child novel previously, I'd recommend The Cabinet of Curiosities, which in my opinion is their best."
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