A special agent of the FBI Aloisius Pendergast is on the verge of despair. Having barely found his wife Helen, whom he considered the deceased for many years, he again loses her, this time forever. Pendergast is ready to reduce life. From a rash step, he is saved by the lieutenant of the police of d’Agost, who urgently needs help in the investigation. A series of cruel and meaningless murders was committed in Manhattan hotels, and the killer leaves strange messages each time. Having overpowered himself, Pendergast takes on the study of the materials of the investigation and quickly finds out that these messages are addressed to him. Moreover, the killer, apparently, is his blood relative. But who is it? After all, his terrible brother Diogenes has long been dead. Having predicted where the following crime will occur, Pendergast rushes there to catch the killer. He does not suspect what incredible meeting fate prepared him …
For the first time in Russian!
Author
Preston Douglas, Child Lincoln
Translator
Udinin Sergey Borisovich
Publisher
ABC, 2014
Series
The Big Book. Preston and Child
Genre
Modern foreign prose
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