A cruel attack is carried out on Wilma Smithbeck, a New York Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a staff member of the Museum of Natural History—right in their apartment in Manhattan. Witness accounts and surveillance cameras point to the same startling fact: the attacker was their slightly odd neighbor who, according to all accounts, has been dead and buried for several weeks.
Agent Pendergast and Lieutenant Vincent D’Agosta begin their investigation to uncover the truth about their friend’s death. This investigation leads them into the grim enclaves of Manhattan, whose existence they couldn’t even have imagined before: secret voodoo cults—none of whose followers survived…