Listen to the Excerpt: Pendergast, The Beginning
From the #1 New York Times bestselling duo Preston and Child comes the Agent Pendergast origin story—a golden opportunity for longtime fans and new readers to learn about Agent Pendergast’s strange and shocking first case.
After losing both his partner and his wife, Special Agent Dwight Chambers returns to work only to be saddled with mentoring the brilliant and maddening A. X. L. Pendergast. When Pendergast’s reckless behavior gets them suspended, he seizes the chance to investigate a strange Mississippi murder, pulling Chambers into a case that spirals from curiosity to terror. Though they identify the killer through Pendergast’s unorthodox genius, Chambers discovers that solving the crime is only the beginning of the horror.
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Pendergast welcomes the banishment, because it gives him the opportunity to investigate a peculiar murder in Mississippi that has captured his fancy. What starts off as a whimsical quest swiftly turns into a terrifying pursuit, as Chambers and Pendergast uncover a string of grisly, ritualistic killings that defy any known serial killer profile.
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