After his wife Helen is brazenly abducted before his eyes Special Agent Pendergast furiously pursues the kidnappers chasing them across the country & into Mexico. But then things go terribly tragically wrong; the kidnappers escape; & a shattered Pendergast retreats to his New York apartment & 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? & 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 & 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.