Medicine Creek, Kansas, has been slowly dying for the last century. A small, quiet place, the primary occupation is still farming, Main Street is a stretch of old and dusty businesses, and the nearest mall is 200 miles away. In a town where nothing changes, the community is terrified after a series of grisly murders takes place. Even more alarming, the bodies are displayed in bizarre tableaus. With the entire town in shock, FBI Agent Pendergast arrives from New Orleans to investigate. From the fields to the local caves, Pendergast discovers the remnants of a Prohibition-era moonshine operation and the truth behind one of the town"s greatest mysteries: who was behind the Medicine Creek Massacre of 1865. Now, Pendergast must discover the twisted secret hiding within a four-generation Kansas family--before someone else is murdered. - Preston and Child"s most recent hardcover, The Cabinet Of Curiosities (Warner, 6/02), has over 75,000 copies in print to date, hit the New York Times extended bestseller list, and received a starred review in Publishers Weekly. It will be published in Warner mass market in 6/03. - The authors" The Ice Limit (Warner hardcover, 2000) has over 65,000 copies in print and hit the New York Times extended bestseller list. The mass market (Warner, 7/01) was a USA TODAY bestseller. Their four Warner novels have more than 1.4 million copies in print combined. - Agent Pendergast is the authors" most popular character, featured in The Cabinet of Curiosities and The Relic (Tor, 1996), which has 1.3 million mass market copies in print. - Also available as a Time Warner AudioBook(TM).