Valse Macabre, Paperback Book, By: Douglas J Preston

William Smithback, reporter for the New York Times, and his wife Nora Kelly, archaeologist at the Museum of Natural History, are savagely assaulted in their apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. If Nora escapes, Smithback is killed.The murderer is quickly identified by witnesses and CCTV cameras. It is about their strange and sinister neighbor, Fearing yet dead and buried for several days already! Such a mystery cannot leave the famous FBI Inspector Pendergast insensitive. Supported by his sidekick, Inspector Vincent dAcosta, he will do everything to find his friend's murderer. Their investigation will lead them to a secret sect, The City, hidden for two centuries in the wooded part of Manhattan. Is there a connection between this sect, who indulges among other things in animal sacrifices, and the resurrection as killer zombies of Fearing and then Smithback? The enigma will give our two investigators a hard time, especially when Alexander Esteban, a former director specializing in Z series gore films, enters the waltz. Obviously macabre What is the real reason for his fierce hatred of La Ville?