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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 ...
Pendergast pursues the thief and artifact through China, Rome, and London. He finds that the original thief was killed and the artifact stolen by someone else. He and Constance track the killer to a new luxury ocean liner, the Britannia which is headed to New York City. Aboard the ship, Pendergast quickly eliminates all but a few possible suspects.
Pendergast masquerades as a cab driver and picks up Smithback. After a high speed chase, Pendergast drops Smithback off at a high-class, expensive sanatorium in the Catskills. D’Agosta is trying to gather information for Pendergast on the Duchamp murder, but has to sneak around and move out of Hayward's apartment in order to do so.
He is serving a sentence of life without parole at a California state prison. Living the high life . The fire erupted around 1 a.m. on Sept. 16, 1990, in the Kimes’ beachfront home southeast of ...
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.
Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast is approached by Percival Lake, a sculptor who wishes to hire him as a private investigator. On returning from vacation to his home in Exmouth, Massachusetts, Lake discovered that thieves had stolen his wine collection from the cellar of the lighthouse he calls his home and frustrated by the local police, he wishes to hire Pendergast to investigate.
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.