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Agent Pendergast: Book 5

Brimstone (2004) (edit title/settings)

by Douglas Preston (Author), Lincoln Child (Author) (edit contributors)

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A body is found in the attic of a fabulous Long Island estate. There is a hoofprint scorched into the floor, and the stench of sulfur chokes the air. When FBI Special Agent Pendergast investigates the gruesome crime, he discovers that thirty years ago four men conjured something unspeakable.... read more

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  • “Sleep is an unfortunate biological requirement that both wastes time and leaves one vulnerable”
    Pendergast
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  • “Don’t live in the past—you will know what you’ve lost but not what you’ve found?”
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  • “The longer segment is 1.618054 times longer than the shorter segment. The shorter segment is 0.618054 percent of the longer. These two numbers, moreover, are exact reciprocals of each other, differing only in the first digit—the only two numbers to demonstrate that property.”
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  • Criticism is a profession which allows one a certain license to be vicious outside the bounds of normal civilized behavior.
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  • “ Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun; And, as a vapour or a drop of rain Once lost, can ne’er be found again.”
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  • “Nobel might have gone down in history as a thoroughly evil man had not a curious thing happened. In 1888 his brother died, and the newspapers of Europe mistakenly reported his brother’s death as his own. ‘The Merchant of Death Is Dead,’ ran the headlines. Reading his own obituary shocked Nobel deeply, and made him realize how history would see him. His reaction was to establish the Nobel prizes—including the famed Peace Prize—as a way to redirect what would certainly have been the dreadful judgment of history on his life.”
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  • “The twentieth century showed us the evil face of physics. This century will show us the evil face of biology. This will be humanity’s last century, Constance.”
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  • And the sublime Wilkie Collins! Have you read The Woman in White?”
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  • We Florentines have a saying: The nail that sticks out gets hammered back in.
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  • quotidian in the extreme.” “Quotidian.
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  • There is no profession more ignoble than that of the critic—except perhaps that of the physician presiding at an execution.” “You’re right there,” said D’Agosta with feeling. “Those who can’t do, teach, and those who can’t teach, critique.”
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First Sentence edit see section history

Agnes Torres parked her white Ford Escort in the little parking area outside the hedge and stepped into the cool dawn air.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 5 of 11 in Agent Pendergast. (standard series)

Preceded by Still Life with Crows, and followed by Dance of Death.

This is book 1 of 3 in Diogenes Trilogy. (standard series)

Followed by Dance of Death.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Douglas Preston (Author)
  2. Lincoln Child (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Warner Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: August 2004
ISBN: 044653143X
Page Count: 499

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  • Library of Congress: CPB Box no. 2346 vol. 17
  • Dewey: 813.54 22

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