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Two Graves (Pendergast #12)

September 7, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: After all this time thinking his wife was dead, Agent Pendergast has discovered that she’s still alive and well – and minutes after their reunion, she’s kidnapped and swept away in a brutal shootout. Pendergast goes after her but another problem emerges: a serial killer of particular brutality and randomness has arrived in New York and has Pendergast on the brain… The Review: The funny thing is, this might’ve actually been a halfway decent entry in somebody […]

Categories: Fiction • Tags: Agent Pendergast, Alban Pendergast, Aloysius Pendergast, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Douglas Preston, Fiction, Lincoln Child, Preston & Child, Reviews, The Helen Trilogy, Two Graves

Cold Vengeance (Pendergast #11)

July 10, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: Agent Pendergast just discovered that his wife’s death wasn’t an accident – but that’s not all. After an attempt on his life, he discovers that she might not even be dead. A race across the world ensues, one whose resolution not only puts Pendergast and his nearest in danger but threatens to rewrite everything he thought he knew about his wife. The Review: On the fifth page, in the space of a page, a stag is “a thousand […]

Categories: Fiction • Tags: Agent Pendergast, Aloysius Pendergast, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Cold Vengeance, Corrie Swanson, Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, Pendergast, Preston & Child, Reviews, The Helen Trilogy, Thriller, Vincent D'Agosta

Fever Dream (Pendergast #10)

July 3, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: Agent Pendergast’s wife died on safari some twelve years ago – but a chance examination of her hunting rifle reveals something else: that she was, in fact, murdered. Pendergast sets off to discover who caused it and why, stripping away parts of himself in the ruthless pursuit of answers… answers that might reveal that he never knew his bride at all. The Review: I’m torn about this Pendergast novel, for a couple of reasons. For one, it […]

Categories: Fiction • Tags: Adventure, Agent Pendergast, Aloysius Pendergast, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Constance Greene, Douglas Preston, Fiction, Laura Hayward, Lincoln Child, New Orleans, Pendergast, Preston & Child, Reviews, Thriller, Vincent D'Agosta

Cemetery Dance (Pendergast #9)

October 13, 2014 by Drew

The Short Version: Bill Smithback has been viciously murdered by what appears to have been a dead man walking. With those closest to Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast seemingly targeted by these zombies, it’s a race against time to uncover the strange goings-on up in Inwood Park… but might Pendergast, Nora, D’Agosta, and the rest of the gang be up against something truly supernatural this time? The Review: First off, this was one of those wonderful confluences of book and calendar: apparently, […]

Categories: Fiction, Mystery • Tags: A Visit to October Country, Agent Pendergast, Aloysius Pendergast, Bill Smithback, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Cemetery Dance, Douglas Preston, Fiction, Inwood Park, Laura Hayward, Lincoln Child, Manhattan, Mystery, Nora Kelly, Pendergast, Preston & Child, Reviews, Thriller, Vincent D'Agosta, Voûdo, Voodoo

Dance of Death (Pendergast #6)

April 16, 2014 by Drew

The Short Version: Aloysius Pendergast, left for dead after the machinations of Count Fosco, returns through the swift and surprising intervention of his brother, the deadly and deranged Diogenes Pendergast. In a race against time, with Diogenes targeting those closest to his brother, Aloysius joins forces again with Vincent D’Agosta to stop his brother’s mad plan – but at what cost? The Review: “You can tell a lot about a person by meeting their brother,” reads a line of almost-too-good-to-be-true […]

Categories: Fiction • Tags: Agent Pendergast, Aloysius Pendergast, Bill Smithback, Constance Greene, Corrie Swanson, Dance of Death, Diogenes Pendergast, Douglas Preston, Fiction, Laura Hayward, Lincoln Child, Margo Green, Mystery, Nora Kelly, Preston & Child, Thriller, Vincent D'Agosta, Viola Maskelene

Brimstone (Pendergast #5)

April 14, 2014 by Drew

The Short Version: Thirty years ago, four young men conjured the devil to make a pact for fame and fortune. Now, it seems, the devil has come to collect: one of the four, a renowned art critic, has been found dead at his Southampton, NY home of what appears to be some sort of spontaneous combustion, with the scent of brimstone and a hoofprint nearby. Special Agent Pendergast and his old friend Vincent D’Agosta stumble into the case and race to discover the […]

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Literature, Mystery • Tags: Agent Pendergast, Aloysius Pendergast, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Brimstone, Constance Greene, Count Fosco, Diogenes Pendergast, Douglas Preston, Fiction, Horror, Italy, Laura Hayward, Lincoln Child, Literature, Mystery, New York City, Occult, Preston & Child, Reviews, Vincent D'Agosta, Viola Maskelene

Still Life with Crows (Pendergast #4)

April 13, 2014 by Drew

The Short Version: On vacation after the harrowing events of The Cabinet of Curiosities, Special Agent Pendergast finds his way out to Medicine Creek, Kansas – where a strange murder has just been discovered. Ritualistic, near the site of an old Indian massacre, on the eve of a major decision about the town’s future… it makes some in the town wonder if there’s something otherworldly at play. Pendergast, along with the plucky young Corrie Swanson, dives in to the unsettling mystery […]

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Mystery • Tags: Agent Pendergast, Corrie Swanson, Douglas Preston, Fiction, Horror, Lincoln Child, Mystery, Pendergast, Preston & Child, Still Life with Crows

The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast #3)

March 20, 2014 by Drew

The Short Version: When a 19th Century charnel house is discovered under a construction site on the Lower East Side, it would at first appear to be simply a find of archaeological significance. But Special Agent Pendergast arrives on the scene and with him comes the sense of something far larger at play than New York realty & politics. When new murders start popping up with the charnel house M.O., Pendergast must unmask the new killer before he and his […]

Categories: Fiction • Tags: Agent Pendergast, Aloysius Pendergast, Bill Smithback, Douglas Preston, Fiction, Horror, Laura Hayward, Lincoln Child, Mystery, Nora Kelly, Pendergast, Preston & Child, Science, The Cabinet of Curiosities

Reliquary (Pendergast #2)

February 7, 2014 by Drew

The Short Version: Eighteen months after the horrifying events at the Natural History Museum, headless corpses begin to show up in New York City – and the city’s homeless are running scared from a new menace called “Wrinklers”. D’Agosta, Pendergast, Smithback, and Green are back on the case – and they quickly discover that the horrors of Mbwun might not’ve ended with the death of the beast… The Review: Just as Jurassic Park had its gratuitous sell-out sequel… so too does Relic. Both […]

Categories: Fiction • Tags: Agent Pendergast, Aloysius Pendergast, Anthropology, Bill Smithback, Douglas Preston, Fiction, Horror, Lincoln Child, Margo Green, Mbwun, Museum of Natural History, New York City, Preston & Child, Reliquary, Science, Thriller, Vincent D'Agosta, Virus

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