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First Published:
Aug 2004, 512 pages
Paperback:
Apr 2005, 752 pages
Featuring bone-chilling suspense and Preston and Child's trademark meticulous research and vivid detail, Brimstone is the duo's—and Pendergast's—most dangerous and gripping adventure yet.
A claw print scorched into the wall...
The stench of sulfur in the air...
Has the Devil come to claim his due?
BRIMSTONE
Behind the gates of a fabulous Hampton estate, FBI Special Agent
Pendergast discovers the carnage of a gruesome crime—a nightmare of
seemingly supernatural origin. The smoldering remains of infamous art critic
Jeremy Grove, a melted cross branding his chest, are found in a locked,
barricaded attic. The hoofprint singed into the floorboards and the smell of
brimstone recall the legendary horrors that befall those who make a pact
with the Devil.
Reuniting with police officers Vincent D'Agosta and Laura Hayward,
Pendergast combs New York hoping for a simple explanation: a villain who is
merely a man. But his search takes him beyond the exclusive clubs and luxury
penthouses of Manhattan to a crumbling, legend-shrouded castle in the
Italian countryside, where thirty years ago four men conjured
something...unspeakable.
Featuring bone-chilling suspense and Preston and Child's trademark
meticulous research and vivid detail, Brimstone is the duo's—and
Pendergast's—most dangerous and gripping adventure yet.
1
Agnes Torres parked her white Ford Escort in the little parking area
outside the hedge and stepped into the cool dawn air. The hedges were twelve
feet high and as impenetrable as a brick wall; only the shingled peak of the
big house could be seen from the street. But she could hear the surf
thundering and smell the salt air of the invisible ocean beyond.
Agnes carefully locked the car—it paid to be careful, even in this
neighborhood—and, fumbling with the massive set of keys, found the right
one and stuck it into the lock. The heavy sheet-metal gate swung inward,
exposing a broad expanse of green lawn that swept three hundred yards down
to the beach, flanked by two dunes. A red light on a keypad just inside the
gate began blinking, and she entered the code with nervous fingers. She had
thirty seconds before the sirens went off. Once, she had dropped her keys
and couldn't punch in the code in time, and the thing ...
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