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Preston & Child continue their series featuring FBI Special Agent Pendergast and Constance Greene, as they take a final stand against New York's deadliest serial Pendergast's own ancestor…and Constance's greatest enemy. A desperate bargain is broken…Constance Greene confronts Manhattan's most dangerous serial killer, Enoch Leng, bartering for her sister's life — but she is betrayed and turned away empty-handed, incandescent with rage. A clever trap is set…Unknown to Leng, Pendergast's brother, Diogenes, appears unexpectedly, offering to help — for mysterious reasons of his own. Disguised as a cleric, Diogenes establishes himself in New York's notorious Five Points slum, manipulating events like a chess master, watching Leng's every move…and awaiting his own chance to strike. A shocking climax unfolds as alliances shift, long-buried secrets are revealed, and Constance must decide how far she is willing to go to avenge those she has lost—in a breathtaking finale that will forever alter the world of Agent Pendergast.