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Aloysius Xingu Leng Pendergast [1] is a fictional character appearing in novels by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. He first appeared as a supporting character in their first novel, Relic (1995), and in its 1997 sequel Reliquary , before assuming the protagonist 's role in the 2002 novel The Cabinet of Curiosities .
Secretive Special Agent Aloysius X. L. Pendergast takes an interest in the case and recruits Dr. Nora Kelly, an archaeologist at New York City's American Museum of Natural History, to quickly investigate the crime scene and collect evidence prior to the intervention of Anthony Fairhaven, the wealthy real estate developer who is directing the ...
Relic is a 1995 novel by American authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, [1] and the first in the Special Agent Pendergast series. As a horror novel and techno-thriller, it comments on the possibilities inherent in genetic manipulation, and is critical of museums and their role both in society and in the scientific community.
Meanwhile, Pendergast arrives at the island, enlists the help of the local carabinieri. Upon arriving at Diogenes' house and finding the aftermath of his and Constance's battle, then Pendergast heads up the slope as well. Pendergast sees Constance and Diogenes fighting each other, locked in an embrace, at the edge of a cliff high upon the volcano.
Brimstone is a thriller novel written by American authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, and published on August 3, 2004, by Warner Books.This is the fifth installment in the Special Agent Pendergast series and the first novel in the Diogenes trilogy that also includes Dance of Death (2005) and The Book of the Dead (2006).
Ten former prison guards were indicted for the killing of Robert Brooks, a prisoner incarcerated at the Marcy Correctional Facility in Marcy, New York, who was fatally beaten at the prison in ...
As it turns out, the chase was merely a diversion. Constance is still grieving in the basement of Riverside Drive and is slowly seduced by Diogenes, while the surviving Agent Pendergast has been fished out of the sea by smugglers who want to use him to free a colleague from prison and plan to kill him afterwards.
2 more arrested in death of trans man Sam Nordquist. New York State Police announced the arrests Friday of 29-year-old Kimberly L. Sochia, of Canandaigua and 21-year-old Thomas G. Eaves, of Geneva ...