City of Endless Night (Agent Pendergast Series, 17)

City of Endless Night (Agent Pendergast Series, 17) by Preston, Douglas. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9781455536955.

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 womans body is discovered in an abandoned warehouse in Queens, the head nowhere to be found. Lieutenant CDS Vincent DAgosta quickly takes the lead. He knows his investigation will attract fierce scrutiny, so DAgosta 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 DAgosta, "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 DAgosta 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, theres something unique to the city itself that has attracted the evil eye of the killer. As mass hysteria sets in, Pendergast and DAgosta find themselves in the crosshairs of an opponent who has threatened the very lifeblood of the city. Itll take all of Pendergasts skill to unmask this most dangerous foe-let alone survive to tell the tale.