Tag: Pendergast

Roundup: February 2017

March 1, 2017 by Drew

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch Rating: 3 out of 5 The Short Version: Locke Lamora is a young thief at the head of a band of merry misfits known as the Gentlemen Bastards. Alternating between tales of his rise to the head of the Bastards and an ongoing story in Camorr that starts as a simple job but quickly expands to be far more deadly, it’s time to meet Locke Lamora… The Review: I had the highest of hopes for this […]

Categories: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Horror, Literature, Mystery, Spy • Tags: All Hail God Mammon, All the Old Knives, CIA, Comic Books, Douglas Preston, Elizabeth Strout, Fantasy, Fiction, Gentlemen Bastards, Horror, Jonathan Hickman, Lincoln Child, Literature, My Name is Lucy Barton, myths, Neil Gaiman, norse mythology, Olen Steinhauer, Pendergast, Preston & Child, Review Roundup, Roundup, Scott Lynch, Spy, Storytelling, The Black Monday Murders, The Lies of Locke Lamora, The Obsidian Chamber, The Tournament of Books 2017, Thriller, Tomm Coker

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

Blue Labyrinth (Pendergast #14)

November 11, 2014 by Drew

The Short Version: Special Agent Pendergast has many enemies – and his family has even more. But when one of his most dangerous foes ends up dead on his doorstep, Pendergast must wonder who now is taking aim and why. The sins of the Pendergast family have come to haunt Aloysius and, despite the best efforts of his devoted friends, this time he might have to pay the ultimate penance… The Review: How long does a thing remain tainted by […]

Categories: Fiction, Mystery • Tags: Alban Pendergast, Aloysius Pendergast, Blue Labyrinth, Book, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Constance Greene, Douglas Preston, Fiction, Lincoln Child, Margo Green, Mystery, Pendergast, Preston & Child, Reviews, Special Agent Pendergast, 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

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

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