Brimstone
FBI agent Pendergast returns to puzzle out a murder with demonic overtones in this thriller by bestselling writer team Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. A mark in the shape of a hoofprint lies next to the charred corpse of universally disliked art critic Jeremy Grove. Southampton cop Vincent D`Agosta and FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast find any number of likely human suspects, but is it possible that that Grove`s murderer was actually not of this Earth?

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1. \Brim"stone\, n. [OE. brimston, bremston, bernston,
   brenston; cf. Icel. brennistein. See {Burn}, v. t., and
   {Stone}.]
   Sulphur; See {Sulphur}.
   

2. \Brim"stone\, a.
   Made of, or pertaining to, brimstone; as, brimstone matches.
         From his brimstone bed at break of day A-walking the
         devil has gone.                          --Coleridge.
   

an inflammable mineral substance found in quantities on the shores of the Dead Sea. The cities of the plain were destroyed by a rain of fire and brimstone (Gen. 19:24, 25). In Isa. 34:9 allusion is made to the destruction of these cities. This word figuratively denotes destruction or punishment (Job 18:15; Isa. 30:33; 34:9; Ps. 11:6; Ezek. 38:22). It is used to express the idea of excruciating torment in Rev. 14:10; 19:20; 20:10.