Name: Verses for the Dead
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Author: Douglas Preston
ISBN: 9781538732670

Type

Physical Book

Author

Douglas Preston

Publisher

Grand Central Publishing

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

352

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x2.2 cm

Weight

0.43 kg.

ISBN13

9781538732670

Edition No.

Synopsis "Verses for the Dead"

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, FBI Agent Pendergast reluctantly teams up with a new partner to investigate a rash of Miami Beach murders . . . only to uncover a deadly conspiracy that spans decades.After an overhaul of leadership at the FBI's New York field office, A. X. L. Pendergast is abruptly forced to accept an unthinkable condition of continued employment: the famously rogue agent must now work with a partner.Pendergast and his new colleague, junior agent Coldmoon, are assigned to investigate a rash of killings in Miami Beach, where a bloodthirsty psychopath is cutting out the hearts of his victims and leaving them with cryptic handwritten letters at local gravestones. The graves are unconnected save in one bizarre way: all belong to women who committed suicide.But the seeming lack of connection between the old suicides and the new murders is soon the least of Pendergast's worries. Because as he digs deeper, he realizes the brutal new crimes may be just the tip of the iceberg: a conspiracy of death that reaches back decades.

Douglas Preston

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Douglas Preston is an American writer and journalist born on May 26, 1956, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is known for his suspense and techno-thriller novels, many of which are co-written with Lincoln Child. Before turning to writing, he worked as an editor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught non-fiction writing at Princeton University. Additionally, he has contributed articles on archaeology and anthropology for The New Yorker magazine.

Among his most notable works are "The Lost Idol" (1995) and "The Relic" (1997), both co-written with Lincoln Child and belonging to the suspense genre. He is also the author of "The Lost City of the Monkey God" (2017), a non-fiction work that narrates the search for a legendary city in Honduras. Several of his novels have been bestsellers in The New York Times, solidifying his reputation in the literature of mystery and adventure.

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