The unknown victim of a ghastly murder is found staked out in a cornfield near the fading, dusty prairie town of Medicine Creek, Kansas. Special Agent Pendergast arrives to investigate, but meets stiff local resistance even as more bodies are found. Pendergast persists, unraveling the dark secrets that have haunted Medicine Creek for more than a century..
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