Reliquary (Pendergast, Book 2) | Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Reliquary (Pendergast, Book 2) | Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child | excellent book

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	Reliquary (Pendergast, Book 2) Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child Tor Books, 1998 - 480 pages average customer review:based on 185 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Better than the first....

Sequels are seldom better than the original.....Read this and see that it's very possible. A great read, you will not put it down.

excellent book

Another great book in sequel to relic. These guys can capture your attention and not let go.Pendergast is a great character. i look forward to reading other titles from these authors.

intersting books

Douglas Preston can't write a bad book. This is a series and I can't wait for the next one and am terrified that he will quit at any moment. They are intricate, thoughtful and will scare you silly. They are like nothing I've read before. He doesn't talk down to you, expects you to understand what he is talking about and you do. But then you feel this something looking over your shoulder, following you down the hall at night. I am a huge fan of his and am deeply grateful to have found him. When he wrote with his partner they just can't be beat.If you don't know his partner you havent been reading enough books. He is amazing.

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If you like sci-fi thrillers, this book will be hard to put down.

A year and a half after the museum beast came to New York, two bodies are found on a routine police dive for a package of heroin thrown off a bridge. No one suspects the museum beast is involved since it was killed and transported away, but Margo Green and Dr. Frock are once again asked to help if they can identify these strangely misshapen bodies.

While it is their work to find out the identity of the bodies, it is up to the police to find out where they came from and how they made it to where they were discovered. This portion of the story was the most interesting to me as it described (how accurately I cannot say) the vast network of tunnels beneath Manhattan and the communities of homeless people who live there.

While I really enjoyed this book, it is not one I can recommend broadly. I consider Reliquary to be a guilty-pleasure sci-fi thriller. It had wonderful suspense that would probably leave most readers on the edge of their seats, but there were enough murders and far-fetched scientific "discoveries" to limit the number of readers who would enjoy this book. And at times there was almost too much going on. I was content with the complexity of the story, but they lost me with one particular subplot which continued (seemingly) only to keep one of the recurring characters involved.

I don't think I am the only one who is skeptical of sequels. I think that can be evidenced by Reliquary being labeled as "sequel to the New York Times best seller Relic" and it not being a bestseller on its own. I thought Reliquary was just as good if not better than Relic. Don't be afraid to pick up this sequel.

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A first-rate sequel

This book is the sequel to the bestselling "Relic" by authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. It reunites characters from that book including FBI Special Agent Pendergast (a recurring character in their novels), Margo Green, Lt. D'Agosta, Bill Smithback, and museum curator Dr. Frock.

Tautly written and edited, the book takes readers from the Museum of Natural History to the subterranean world beneath the glittering skyscrapers of New York. The secret of the Museum Beast, the villain of "Relic" drives the plot of the story and the ending is quite surprising.

While I found myself liking some of their later efforts (such as 'Brimstone" and "The Cabinet of Curiosities") I genuinely love the character of Pendergast, who is probably one of the great fictional detectives of all time.

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