Tropic of night

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Not since The Secret History has a novel so flawlessly married the ferocious intensity of an unforgettable thriller with the depth, daring, and nuance of our most celebrated literary fiction. Tropic of Night is a virtuoso performance -- an unforgettably accomplished novel, a masterpiece of electricity and ambition.Jane Doe was a promising anthropologist, an expert on shamanism. Now she's nothing, a shadow: after faking her own suicide, she's living under an assumed identity in Miami with a little girl to protect. Everyone thinks she's dead. Or so she hopes.Then the killings start, a series of ritualistic murders that terrifies all of Miami. The investigator is Jimmy Paz, a Cuban-American police detective. There are witnesses, but they can recall almost nothing of the events, as though their memories have been erased -- as if a spell has been cast on each of them. Equally bizarre is the string of clues Paz uncovers: a divination charm, exotic drugs found in the bodies of the victims, a century-old report telling of a secret place in the heart of Africa.These clues point Paz inexorably toward the fugitive, Jane Doe, and force Jane to realize that the darkness she has fled is seeking her out, hunting her down. By the time her path intersects with Jimmy Paz's, the two will be thrust into a cataclysmic battle between good and an evil unimaginable to the Western mind. E-book Extra......Page 12 Epigraphs......Page 6 Fiction Disclaimer......Page 8 One......Page 14 Two......Page 29 Three......Page 35 Four......Page 52 Five......Page 65 Six......Page 70 Seven......Page 89 Eight......Page 104 Nine......Page 109 Ten......Page 124 Eleven......Page 138 Twelve......Page 142 Thirteen......Page 158 Fourteen......Page 177 Fifteen......Page 181 Sixteen......Page 199 Seventeen......Page 214 Eighteen......Page 219 Nineteen......Page 234 Twenty......Page 249 Twenty-one......Page 255 Twenty-two......Page 270 Twenty-three......Page 285 Twenty-four......Page 290 Twenty-five......Page 311 Twenty-six......Page 326 Twenty-seven......Page 342 Twenty-eight......Page 355 Twenty-nine......Page 369 Thirty......Page 378 Thirty-one......Page 401 Thirty-two......Page 414 Glossary......Page 430 E-book Extra......Page 433 About the Author......Page 436 Credits......Page 437 Front Cover......Page 1 Copyright......Page 438 About the Publisher......Page 439