The Wheel of Darkness (Special Agent Pendergast)
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
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Author: Douglas Preston, Lincoln ChildEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-08-28
ISBN: 0446580287
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Book Reviews of The Wheel of Darkness (Special Agent Pendergast)
Book Review: Action-packed and an oh so fun read
Summary: 5 Stars
The Wheel of Darkness is another beautifully crafted story. If you've read the Diogenes trilogy then you know that FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast and his ward, Constance Green, are in sore need of a vacation, which they choose to spend at a monastery located high in the mountains of Tibet.
Close to the end of their stay, the monks approach Pendergast with a favor, to recover a precious relic that had been stolen from their inner sanctuary by a previous visitor. What follows is a suspenseful, harrowing tale as Pendergast pursues the thief halfway across the world to Venice and finally ending on the cruise liner The Brittania as she sails to New York on her maiden voyage.
Poseidon is one of my favorite movies and the panic and mayhem onboard the Brittania is reminiscent of that. There are several plotlines going on such as a mysterious force is controlling and corrupting people on the ship. That same force is also behind several murders and also the first officer has sealed off the bridge and is determined to run the ship onto the Carrion Rocks.
I think this is one of my more favorite installments of the Pendergast series. The story starts off a little slow until you get to the Brittania. After that, I couldn't put it down.
Summary of The Wheel of Darkness (Special Agent Pendergast)
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.Contemporary Books
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