Pendergast - The Beginning

Grand Central Publishing · 2026 · Book

From the #1 New York Times bestselling duo Preston and Child comes the Agent Pendergast origin story. Special Agent Dwight Chambers, trying to rebuild his life after losing his partner and wife, is assigned to mentor a new FBI agent named A. X. L. Pendergast. When both are suspended, Pendergast pursues a peculiar murder in Mississippi, and Chambers reluctantly joins him. What begins as a curious investigation uncovers a string of ritualistic killings that defy any known profile. Using his brilliance and unorthodox methods, Pendergast helps solve the case and find the killer—but that is when the true horror begins.