After his wife, Helen, is brazenly abducted before his eyes, Special Agent Pendergast furiously pursues the kidnappers, chasing them across the country and into Mexico. But then, things go terribly, tragically wrong; the kidnappers escape; and a shattered Pendergast retreats to his New York apar[...]

A top nuclear scientist goes mad and takes an innocent family hostage at gunpoint, killing one and causing a massive standoff.
A plume of radiation above New York City leads to a warehouse where, it seems, a powerful nuclear bomb was assembled just hours before.
Sifting through the evidence, [...]

Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human...But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to cele[...]

In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered.
Inside are thirty-six bodies--all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago.
While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings start to terrorize the city.
The nightmare has begun.

Colorado, 1876: At a remote mining camp high in the Rocky Mountains, eleven silver miners are killed, their bodies horribly mutilated, flesh devoured. Bear attack? Not everyone thinks so. 136 years later, the cemetery where the miners were buried is being cleared for new development. Forensic pathol[...]

Behind the gates of a fabulous Hamptons estate, FBI Special Agent Pendergast comes upon the carnage of a gruesome - and seemingly supernatural - crime. The smouldering remains of infamous art critic Jeremy Grove, a melted cross branding his chest, are found in a locked, barricaded attic. The hoofpri[...]

El misterio que rodea a la mujer de Pendergast se hace cada vez mas impenetrable y el inspector descubre que en realidad no sabia casi nada del pasado de su esposa.
Despues de averiguar que la muerte de su esposa Helen no fue un accidente, el agente especial del FBI Aloysius Pendergast tiene una[...]

Pilvenpiirtäjän rakennustyömaalla Manhattanilla tehdään säpsähdyttävä löytö. Työmaan alla sijaitsevassa kellarissa lepää 36 ihmisen silvotut jäännökset. Pikainen tutkimus paljastaa jokaisen uhrin selkärangassa samanlaiset leikkuujäljet.



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Long Islandilla sijaitsevan kartanon jykevien porttien takana FBI:n erikoisagentti Pendergast kohtaa kammottavan verilöylyn jäljet. Lukitulta vintiltä,tulikiven tukahduttavan katkun keskeltä löytyy taidekriitikko Jeremy Groven maalliset, kytevät jäännökset, joiden vieressä on lattiaan pain[...]

New Yorkin luonnonhistoriallinen museo on avaamassa uudelleen vanhaa hautaa, kun alkaa tapahtua hurjia. Mikä rooli on hautaan liittyvällä kirouksella? Entä viehättävällä Egypti-asiantuntijalla, johon Pendergast rakastuu?

FBI:n erikoisagentti Pendergast viruu huipputurvallisessa va[...]