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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780446618687
Edition: Reprint
ISBN: 0446618683
Label: Grand Central Publishing
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: July 01, 2008
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Studio: Grand Central Publishing
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FBI Special Agent Pendergast is taking a break from work to take Constance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping to give her closure and a sense of the world that she's missed. They head to Tibet, where Pendergast intensively trained in martial arts and spiritual studies. At a remote monastery, they learn that a rare and dangerous artifact the monks have been guarding for generations has been mysteriously stolen. As a favor, Pendergast agrees to track and recover the relic. A twisting trail of bloodshed leads Pendergast and Constance to the maiden voyage of the Britannia, the world's largest and most luxurious ocean liner---and to an Atlantic crossing fraught with terror.
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My heart was pounding as ancient rituals and a strange curse were slowly and painfully revealed. Pendergast and his ward boarded ship on a frightful ocean journey, taking me with them. What fun!!
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I absolutely love the writings of this talented team, but have to say this book simply was not of the same caliber as their previous books. The plot was thin, character developement among the secondary characters non-existent, and it just didnt grip me as their earlier books have. I have to agree with previous reviewers it seemed slapped together. That said, it was entertaining and readable, simply not engrossing. Very easy to put down. I hope their next book is more to the standards I expect ... Read More
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I found the earlier novels of these two more intriguing, as it seemed they would revolve around the Metropolitan Museum of Natural History, and engage us in interesting and educational mysteries. Then, inevitably, the novels began to focus on the utterly unlikable and somewhat ridiculous Aloysious Pendergast. Comparing him to Sherlock Holmes is laughable. Holmes was a brilliant, tortured, imperfect detective who actually had to go out and LEARN things in the course of his investigations. Pendergast ... Read More
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This is my first book in the series to read, and I found it entertaining, but a bit over the top. There was a bit more of the supernatural involved than what I had heard the series to be known for. Still, it was for the most part a fun read. While the novel begins at a Tibetan monastery, most of the action occurs on a transatlantic liner. Probably the biggest knock for me was that it didn't take long to figure out that anytime a minor character was introduced it was only so that they could be killed ... Read More
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Wheel of Darkness is the sixth book in the Agent Penderghast series by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. These books usually move fast...by fast I mean that they usually grip you by the throat around page 50 and never really let go. And while the action is fantastic, the books are built around this crazy character named Agent Penderghast -- the ingenuity of McGyver, the social pretentiousness of Higgens, and the kick-assery of an Indiana Jones.
After six books, they're also predictable. ... Read More
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