Pendergast and his new teammate, junior agent Coldmoon, are assigned to Miami Beach, where a rash of killings are distinguished by a confounding M.O.: cutting out the hearts of his victims and leaving them - along with cryptic handwritten letters - at local gravestones. As he digs deeper, Pendergast realizes the brutal new crimes may be just the tip of the iceberg: a conspiracy of death that reaches back decades.
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