Crooked River [Paperback]

From #1New York Timesbestselling authors Preston & Child, Agent Pendergast is faced with the most inexplicable challenge of his career when severed feet are found floating in the Gulf of Mexico.

A startling crime with dozens of victims.

To the horror of the quiet resort town of Sanibel Island, Florida, dozens of shoes wash up on the tropical beach—each one with a crudely severed human foot inside.

A ghastly enigma with no apparent solution.

Called away from vacation, Agent Pendergast reluctantly agrees to visit the crime scene and is quickly drawn in by the incomprehensible puzzle. An early pathology report only adds to the mystery. He desperately needs to know: are the victims still alive?

A worthy challenge for a brilliant mind.

Through shocking twists and turns, all trails lead back to a powerful adversary with a sadistic agenda and who—in a cruel irony—ultimately sees in Pendergast the ideal subject for their malevolent research.The thrillers ofDouglas Preston and Lincoln Child"stand head and shoulders above their rivals" (Publishers Weekly). Preston & Child'sRelicandThe Cabinet of Curiositieswere chosen by readers in a National Public Radio poll as being among the one hundred greatest thrillers ever written, andRelicwas made into a number-one box office hit movie. They are coauthors of the famed Pendergast series, and their recent novels includeVerses for the Dead,City of Endless Night,The Obsidian Chamber, andBlue Labyrinth. In addition to his novels and nonfiction works (such asThe Lost City of the Monkey God), Preston writes about archaeology for the New YorkerandNational Geographic magazines. Lincoln Child is a Florida resident and former book editor who has published seven novels of his own, including sucló,