Аннотация
DOUGLAS PRESTON AND LINCOLN CHILD
Pendergast-11
Cold Vengeance
Lincoln Child dedicates this book to his daughter, Veronica
Douglas Preston dedicates this book to Marguerite, Laura, and Oliver Preston
CHAPTER 1
Cairn Barrow, Scotland
AS THEY MOUNTED THE BARREN SHOULDER of Beinn Dearg, the great stone lodge of Kilchurn vanished into the darkness, leaving only the soft yellow glow of its windows tingeing the misty air. Attaining the ridge, Judson Esterhazy and Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast paused and switched off their flashlights to listen. It was five o’clock in the morning, the cusp of first light: almost time for the stags to begin roaring.
Neither man spoke. The wind whispered through the grasses and moaned about the frost-fractured rocks while they waited. But nothing stirred.
“We’re early,” said Esterhazy at last.
“Perhaps,” murmured Pendergast.
Still they waited as the faintest g...
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