Seen from a high altitude, The Book of the Dead is a bit dull and empty, especially compared to its immediate predecessor. The rest of the series’ extended cast of characters pretty much all make an appearance at one point or another, making this volume seems even more familiar.Īnd, like clockwork, the expected happens: Pendergast escapes, Diogenes’ plan is revealed, there’s big trouble at the Museum, and the Diogenes issue is settled. Elli Gunn’s EES is involved, as is a temporarily-suspended Vincent D’Agosta. The stage being set for a massive bloodbath, Preston & Child now return to Pendergast and his friends as they try to conceive of a plan good enough to rescue the FBI agent out of a high-security prison, even despite the constant interference of another FBI agent with a huge grudge against the series’ protagonist. After all, it’s a foolproof plan: What has ever gone wrong with this museum’s special exhibits so far? That a mysterious benefactor seems eager to finance this exhibit and only this exhibit alone doesn’t seem to trouble them. (He’s probably drinking from the milk carton as well, but Preston & Child have bigger crimes to describe.)įans of Preston & Child’s work will be unsurprised and amused to find out that as The Book of the Dead begins, the much-abused New York Natural History Museum is once again trying to restore its tattered reputation by… staging the exhibition of a cursed Egyptian tomb deep in its basement. Circumstances looks promisingly hopeless at the start of the book: Pendergast is locked up in a maximum-security prison for murders his brother has meticulously blamed on him, while Diogenes is running free, planning his next horrific crime, interfering with activities of a non-profit institution and seducing Pendergast’s ward. Memento Mori.Vision, 2007 mass-market reprint of 2006 original, 619 pages, C$9.50 mmpb, ISBN 978-0-2Īfter matching wits with his evil-mastermind brother in Brimstone and Dance of Death, Aloysius Pendergast once again has to rise to the occasion in The Book of the Dead, final tome in the so-called “Diogenes” trilogy. An ancient Egyptian tomb about to be unveiled at a celebrity-studded New York gala, an enigmatic curse released. A young woman with an extraordinary past, on the edge of a violent breakdown. His psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime. And the ultimate challenge: Stop me if you can.Ī talented FBI agent, rotting away in a high security prison for a murder he did not commit. The other, Diogenes, a brilliant and twisted criminal. When FBI Special Agent Pendergast investigates the gruesome crime, he discovers that thirty years ago four men conjured something unspeakable. There is a hoofprint scorched into the floor, and the stench of sulfur chokes the air.
BRIMSTONE:Ī body is found in the attic of a fabulous Long Island estate.
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