Audio Book Description:
Behind the gates of a fabulous Hampton estate, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers the carnage of a gruesome crime-a nightmare of seeminglysupernatural origin. The smoldering remains of infamous artcritic Jeremy Grove, a meltedcross branding his chestare found in a locked, barricaded attic.the hoofprint singed into the floorboardand 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 villian who ismerely a man. But his search takes him beyond the exclusive clubs and luxury penthouses of Manhattan to a crumbling, legend-shrouded castle in the Italiancountryside, where thirty yearsasgo four men conjured something..unspeakable
