This is #21 in the series of books by Preston and Child featuring Aloysius Pendergast, FBI agent extraordinaire. Probably the last one I will ever read.
I have complained before about the Pendergast stories being too weird. This one is the weirdest of all. The mystery that Pendergast is trying to solve this time is the baffling series of deaths in Savannah GA in which the victims are completely drained of blood. The press hangs the label “Savannah Vampire” on the unknown killer. But the truth turns out to be far more fantastic – and hard to swallow – than a bloodsucking serial killer.
I don’t want to ruin the “fun” for anyone who wants to subject himself to this nonsense, so let me just say that the story begins in 1971, jumps to 2021 and ends in 1880. Yes, it involves time travel. But it also involves D.B. Cooper. Yeah – D.B. Cooper, time travel and a Savannah vampire.
Too much for me.
4 out of 10. It would have been 1 out of 10 were it not for the fact that Preston and Child are skilled authors and can make even a ridiculous plot interesting.