Summary

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In this latest installment of the Agent Pendergast saga, zombies seem to be running amok on Manhattan Island. When Bill Smithback, a longtime friend and celebrated journalist is murdered, NYPD homicide detective D'Agosta is bent on revenge. Pendergast also appears on the case, but is careful to note the particular aspects of the crime, namely that the perpetrator caught on film performing the murder had himself died two weeks earlier. A cult located in the woods on the north part of Manhattan Island is suspected due to Smithback's expose articles on their practice of animal sacrifice, and while D'Agosta becomes intent on finding the killer at the cult compound, Pendergast wonders if there may be more than a little grain of truth in the legend of a re-animated corpse hell-bent on murder.