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A secret chamber; a mysterious shipwreck; a murder in desolate salt marshes - a seemingy straightforward private case turns out to be much more complicated and sinister than Special Agent Pendergast ever could have anticipated. Investigating the theft of a priceless wine collection, he uncovers something considerably more disturbing: a bricked-up niche with a crumbling skeleton.

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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.

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´Sit back, crack open the book and get ready for the ride of your life´ David Baldacci.

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Preston, Douglas
Douglas Preston is one half of the internationally bestselling thriller writing duo, Preston & Child. In addition to his novels, Douglas writes about archaeology for the <i>New Yorker</i> and <i>Smithsonian</i> magazines. Douglas lives in New Mexico.

Child, Lincoln
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child are the authors of international #1 bestselling thrillers, including the Agent Pendergast adventures. Douglas lives in New Mexico, Lincoln in New Jersey.

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