City of Endless Night

By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Narrated by: Rene Auberjonois

Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins

Publisher's summary

Number One New York Times Best Seller

"A consistently exciting and never predictable series." (Associated Press)

When Grace Ozmian, the beautiful and reckless daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire, first goes missing, the NYPD assumes she has simply sped off on another wild adventure. Until the young woman's body is discovered in an abandoned warehouse in Queens, the head nowhere to be found.

Lieutenant CDS Vincent D'Agosta quickly takes the lead. He knows his investigation will attract fierce scrutiny, so D'Agosta is delighted when FBI Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast shows up at the crime scene assigned to the case. "I feel rather like Brer Rabbit being thrown into the briar patch," Pendergast tells D'Agosta, "because I have found you here, in charge. Just like when we first met, back at the Museum of Natural History."

But neither Pendergast nor D'Agosta are prepared for what lies ahead. A diabolical presence is haunting the greater metropolitan area, and Grace Ozmian was only the first of many victims to be murdered...and decapitated. Worse still, there's something unique to the city itself that has attracted the evil eye of the killer.

As mass hysteria sets in, Pendergast and D'Agosta find themselves in the crosshairs of an opponent who has threatened the very lifeblood of the city. It'll take all of Pendergast's skill to unmask this most dangerous foe - let alone survive to tell the tale.

©2018 Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child (P)2018 Hachette Audio

Critic reviews

"As always, the authors have crafted a story that is almost impossible to pull away from, and their prose is as elegant as fans have come to expect. Pendergast continues to be one of thrillerdom's most exciting and intriguing series leads, and the series remains among the most reliable in the genre." (Booklist)

"One of the best in the series-tense and tightly wound, with death relentlessly circling, stalking, lurking behind every shadow." (Kirkus Reviews)

"This, yet another masterpiece by Preston & Child, will be the perfect way to start out your New Year...Just as it was when D'Agosta and Pendergast first met up in the thrilling book, Relic, they are together once again solving a crime of mammoth proportions. Preston, Child, and their well-known characters are always sheer perfection!" (Amy Lignor, Suspense Magazine)

Expect more

In past Pendergast novels there was a more extensively developed plot. This one was clear far too early.

Worth the credit

Good story. Kept me in suspense till final chapters. My only beef is that there were a handful of sound editing blips where the narrator clearly had re-recorded a line but the insertion was not seamless. I suspect that’s a reflection on the sound editor. Still, I enjoyed the book and it was otherwise well narrated.

Good story, horrible narrator

I have definitely liked other Preston Child books better than this. The two disappointments are first, and glaringly so, the narrator. OMG - if he didn't already have one foot in the grave! His voice was that of an 80 y.o. and it totally doesn't cut it with this fast paced thriller that has very few, if any, old folks in it.

Next, it seemed a bit off from their prior books. Like, there may have been a different writer for parts. In all fairness, I may have made this decision as a knee jerk to the switch in readers.

Please don't use Mr. Auberjonois - go back to Scott Brick! There is none better - he is D'Agosta and Pendergast.

Not What We're Used To

I've listened to and/or read all of Preston and Child's previous books. The vast majority were superbly intriguing with several layers of depth for the reader to dive through. This book did not live up to those standards. It was simplistic, shallow, and seemingly a quick write--an imitation of previous tales. Usually, I would have stopped listening to this story but, because it's Preston and Child's work, I continued in hopes that the next book in the series will be more thoughtful, detailed, and fresh. That hope compelled me to finish so that I'd have the necessary foundation for the next book. Auberjonois was good as usual, doing his best with the material provided.

Great as always.

Fascinating, with a deliciously evil twist. Psycho-thriller and adventure. Couldn't put it down. Can't wait for the next one

Bad narration

Going to have to give this book back. Narrator sounds like a robot. Good storyline.

City of endless Night

Prendergast is never a disappointment. Fast moving and unexpected turns at the. Good reader and entertaining.

surprisingly good - Rrecommended highly

this book look interesting when I saw it on the website, but I wasn't sure it would hold my interest because it's not my normal genre. but I was pleasantly surprised as I was drawn into the complex weaving of threads of the story. Recommended highly

Pendergast meets his match.

authors make statement on current affairs, lay groundwork for new direction tie up loose ends.

a Preston and Child work, at their best

a straight up murder mystery that will keep you guessing. Does not really add much to Pendergast's story. it feels like Pendergast got what he needed, a break from family issues.