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Description edit
The book that started the New York Times bestselling collaboration of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms.... read more
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Characters edit
- NYPD Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta: Investigating the two deaths at the museum
- Margo Green: A graduate student working on her dissertation in ethnopharmacology.
- William Smithback Jr.: A journalist writing a book about the museum.
- Dr.Whitney C. Frock: Margo's adviser; the chair of the museum's evolutionary biology department.
- Special Agent Aloysius X.L. Pendergast: Pendergast is a special agent with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) out of the New Orleans office. However, frequently travels out of state to investigate cases which interest him, namely those appearing to be the work of serial killers.
- Dr. Ian Cuthbert: Museum scientist and curator
- Gregory Kawakita: A young, ambitious assistant curator.
- Julian Whittlesey: An anthropologist that led an expedition to South America in search of the Kothoga tribe.
- Coffey: FBI agent from the New York field office
- George Moriarty: Curator of the "Superstition" special exhibit; assistant curator under Cuthbert
- Dr. Winston Wright: Museum Director
- Lavinia Rickman: Director of Public Relations for the museum
- Garcia: Police officer
- Mr. Ippolito: Head of museum security
- Lou Bailey: Police sergeant
- Maxwell: Add a description of this character.
- Montague: Employee of the museum who disappeared years ago.
- Beauregard: A security guard
- Hamm: Museum security assistant
- Allen
Setting & Locations edit
- Kothoga: A tribe in Brazil
- Dinosaur Hall: Wing of the Museum of Natural History
- New York City: City in the State of New York
- Great Rotunda: Large room in the Museum of Natural History
- New Orleans: City in Louisiana
- Amazon: Area and Forest in South America
- Belem
- Hudson River
First Sentence edit
At noon, the clouds clinging to the top of Cerro Gordo broke free and scattered.
Table of Contents edit
Chapters 1 -63
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 11 in Agent Pendergast. (standard series)
Followed by Reliquary.
This is book 64 of 99 in NPR's Top 100 Killer Thriller. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Douglas Preston (Author)
- Lincoln Child (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Jim Thiesen (Cover Artist)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Forge
Country: USA
Publication Date: February 1995
ISBN: 031285630X
Page Count: 382
Publisher: Forge
Country: USA
Publication Date: February 1995
ISBN: 031285630X
Page Count: 382
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3566.R3982 R45 1995
- Dewey: 813.54 20
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Links to Supplemental Material edit
- Preston & Child/ Relic: Main website for the book
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