The series follows detective Aloysius Pendergast as he solves complex and mysterious crimes. He is known for his brilliant logic and unorthodox methods.
FBI agent Pendergast and archaeologist Nora Kelly join forces to stop a vicious murderer when the discovery of the remains of thirty-six victims of a nineteenth-century killer apparently sets off a new series of similar killings.
When a series of murders strikes small-town Kansas, FBI Special Agent Pendergast must track down a killer or a curse -- either way, no one is safe. A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground. Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy? Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land? Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of America's heartland. No one is safe.
FBI Special Agent Pendergast hunts a killer in Manhattan, only to confront his most formidable foe: his own brother. With one brother as a top agent and the other as a cunning criminal, a deep-seated animosity fuels a perfect crime, leading to a thrilling showdown.
Psychotic killer Diogenes faces down his incarcerated FBI agent brother, while the Museum of Natural History reopens a long-closed tomb exhibit, a decision that coincides with a series of murders and sparks rumors about an ancient curse.
FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast and his ward, Constance Greene, fall into a dangerous assignment at a remote Tibetan monastery when they are asked to recover a stolen relic with a deadly curse.
At a family reunion, Special Agent Pendergast is finally overcoming the loss of his wife, who was mauled to death by a lion during an African safari. However, when Pendergast discovers that his wife's rifle was intentionally loaded with blanks, he is forced to reopen old wounds in an effort to locate those responsible for the violent killing
After his wife, Helen, is brazenly abducted before his eyes, Special Agent Pendergast furiously pursues the kidnappers, chasing them across the country and into Mexico. But then, things go terribly, tragically wrong; the kidnappers escape; and a shattered Pendergast retreats to his New York apartment and shuts out the world.But when a string of bizarre murders erupts across several Manhattan hotels - perpetrated by a boy who seems to have an almost psychic ability to elude capture - NYPD Lieutenant D'Agosta asks his friend Pendergast for help. Reluctant at first, Pendergast soon discovers that the killings are a message from his wife's kidnappers. But why a message? And what does it mean?When the kidnappers strike again at those closest to Pendergast, the FBI agent, filled anew with vengeful fury, sets out to track down and destroy those responsible. His journey takes him deep into the trackless forests of South America, where he ultimately finds himself face to face with an old evil that - rather than having been eradicated - is stirring anew... and with potentially world-altering consequences.
Special Agent Pendergast and Constance Greene have been called to Exmouth, a small town on the wild Atlantic coast of Massachusetts, to investigate a seemingly innocuous theft. But what they discover at the crime scene changes the course of their investigation: a sealed burial chamber, complete with rusted leg irons, fragments of bone and claw marks on the inside-face of its bricks. Then a historian is found murdered in the desolate salt marshes that surround the town, his face mutilated, his body carved with arcane symbols. Exmouth has a grim history dating back to the aftermath of the Salem witch trials. And now a dark secret, centuries old, is rising to the surface.
A TRAGIC DISAPPEARANCE After a harrowing, otherworldly confrontation on the shores of Exmouth, Massachussetts, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is missing, presumed dead. A SHOCKING RETURN Sick with grief, Pendergast's ward, Constance, retreats to her chambers beneath the family mansion at 891 Riverside Drive – only to be taken captive by a shadowy figure from the past. AN INTERNATIONAL MANHUNT Proctor, Pendergast's longtime bodyguard, springs to action, pursuing Constance's kidnapper through cities, across oceans, and into wastelands unknown. BUT IN THIS WORLD, NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS And by the time Proctor discovers the truth, a terrifying mechanism has stirred – and it may already be too late...
Na zvláštního agenta FBI Aloysia Pendergasta dolehly těžké časy. Nové vedení Newyorské terénní úřadovny není vůbec nakloněno jeho výstředním způsobům vyšetřování. I když Pendergast dosahuje pozoruhodné úspěšnosti ve svých případech, má také vysokou úmrtnost podezřelých. A to se jeho vedoucím nelíbí. Pokud chce Pendergast pokračovat ve své práci, musí se smířit s tím, že odteď bude pracovat s parťákem. A Pendergast rozhodně chce ve své kariéře pokračovat. Už kvůli tomu, že nový případ je v každém ohledu bizarní. S mladým agentem Coldmoonem dostane za úkol vyšetřit sérii vražd v Miami Beach. Pachatel vyřezává svým obětem srdce a nechává je s ručně psanými vzkazy na místních náhrobcích. Jednotlivé hroby nemají zdánlivě nic společného – až na to, že ve všech odpočívají ženy, které před lety spáchaly sebevraždu. Mají staré a nové případy něco společného? A jak s nimi souvisejí literární dopisy vraha, který se podepisuje pan Srdcelap? Ve velkolepém finále oba agenti bojují bok po boku o holý život – odhalí totiž tajemství, které má zůstat navždy pohřbené ve floridských bažinách.
