It is explained as a thing called Chongg Ran, which is taught in Tibet. Pendergast does his going back in time thing again. The church will not be Lutheran it will be Catholic. A girl who lives in a trailer park will not have a neighbor with built in lawn sprinklers. It's sign will be hand painted in Green and Red. You might have a diner in town, which serves meat and potatoes as describe, but you will also have at least one Mexican Restaurant.

If you have a Turkey Processing Plant then you will also have a large Mexican American Community or Illegal Aliens. Hello P&C, Turkey Processing Plants are built next to Turkey Farms, not cornfields.

The main employer is a Turkey processing plant. The town is surrounded by cornfields and they want this company to come in and plant evil genetically modified corn to provide more jobs. If you go to Kansas, as I do once a week, you will find they drive mostly Ford and Chevy pickup trucks, especially in farming communities as this is suppose to be. The timeline is somewhere after 2002, yet everybody is driving AMC gremlins and Hornets. From the way the small Kansas town is described, I do not believe Preston and Child have ever been in Kansas. All the characters are miserable, not a happy person in the town. That's if you go with the cliche way in which Kansas small town people are treated in this book. Then like most P/C novels there is a four hour chase scene, to come to a conclusion that everyone, but an idiot from a small town in Kansas has figured out. At chapter 17 it gets real good and stays that way to chapter 38. This starts out slow like most P/C novels. (I sure hope Preston or Child get that parking ticket straightened out.) If you are a die hard Pendergast or P/C fan, then you will not like this review so do yourself a favor, mark not helpful and move on. When push comes to shove the cops become sniveling little cry babies. Once again all the cops are red neck idiots and they need Aleysius Xingu Leng Pendergast to set them straight. It was a Miserable little Town of Miserable People

Still life with crows