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Agent Pendergast
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Catch-all tag for a series of novels by authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, most of which feature FBI Special Agent Aloysius X.L. Pendergast. The novels tend to feature a mix of the police procedural, horror, and thriller genres. More often than not, the stories involve events that seem supernatural, but are eventually show to have a rational (if somewhat far-fetched) explanation.note Although the later stories are moving away from this...Note that the series has no official title. This entry is named for Agent Pendergast because he appears in it more than any other character.The novels so far (in publication order) are:Agent Pendergast Novels Relic - 1995 Reliquary - 1997 The Cabinet of Curiosities - 2002 Still Life with Crows - 2003 Brimstone - 2004 Dance of Death - 2005 Book of the Dead - 2006 The Wheel of Darkness - 2007 Cemetery Dance - 2009 Fever Dream - 2010 Cold Vengeance - 2011 Two Graves - 2012 White Fire - 2013 Blue Labyrinth - 2014 Crimson Shore - 2015 The Obsidian Chamber - 2016 City of Endless Night - 2018 Verses for the Dead- 2019 Crooked River - 2020 Bloodless - 2021 The Cabinet Of Dr Leng - 2023Novels in the Same Universe Mount Dragon - 1996 Thunderhead - 1999 The Ice Limit - 2000 The Gideon Crew Series: Gideon's Sword - 2011 Gideon's Corpse - 2012 The Lost Island - 2014 Beyond the Ice Limit - 2016 The Pharaoh Key - 2017 The Nora Kelly and Corrie Swanson Series: Old Bones - 2019 The Scorpion's Tail - 2021 Diablo Mesa - 2022 Dead Mountain - 2023Other Novels Jennie - 1994, Preston only Riptide - 1998 Tyrannosaur Canyon - 2005, Preston onlyNow has a Character Sheet. | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Arbitrary Skepticism | |
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Arbitrary Skepticism: You'd think that after a mutant dinosaur attacks the Museum of Natural History in New York, and after an army of human-dino hybrids attack the New York subway system, the citizens of New York and especially the bureaucratic decision-makers would be more open-minded concerning some of the wilder, seemingly paranormal events occurring in the later books. | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Pendergasts (who were French Blue Blood originally). The more we learn about them, the more horrifying they become. They all seem to have been brilliant, focused individuals, who were also some combination of crazy, criminal, and charismatic. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: The authors like to provide extra information on the Pendergast character through email newsletters. | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death: Several in this series. Still Life with Crows probably takes the cake with all the murders being done in the fashion of classic children's nursery rhymes. | |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat | |
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Appears to be the case with the Kansas Police in Still Life with Crows, but the habit gets subverted when the Obstructive Cop really just wanted a chance to solve something for himself, and helps Pendergast take down the killer. | |
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Break the Haughty | |
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Break the Haughty: What seems to be happening to Pendergast from Fever Dream on. | |
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Create Your Own Villain | |
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Create Your Own Villain: While Diogenes's evil was always presented as heritable, in Book of the Dead it's revealed that he's the way he is because when they were children, Pendergast shoved Diogenes into a family antique which turned out to be a device designed to drive the occupant insane. Pendergast is quite distraught when he realizes he created Diogenes all along (he'd suppressed the memory up until that point). | |
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Official Couple | |
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Official Couple: Nora and Smithback, and D'Agosta and Hayward. Pendergast himself hasn't officially committed to anyone since his wife died. | |
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Story Arc | |
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Story Arc: Relic and Reliquary. Brimstone, Dance of Death, and Book of the Dead. Arguably, The Wheel of Darkness acts as a follow up to the arc. Fever Dream, Cold Vengeance and Two Graves. Again, there is a follow up in Blue Labyrinth | |
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Break the Cutie | |
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Break the Cutie: Never works out well for those who try it. | |
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"Scooby-Doo" Hoax | |
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"Scooby-Doo" Hoax: While several of the novels do contain genuine supernatural or fantasy elements, the main threat always turns out to be a human villain masquerading as a more supernatural monster. Even first two novels, Relic and Reliquary, which do have horrific otherworldly monsters running around, have them just be transformed humans. Brimstone and Cemetery Dance are the most notable, as the villains' schemes follow the formula of a Scooby Doo episode right down to the letter (other than multiple murders being involved, of course). | |
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Police Are Useless | |
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Police Are Useless: Averted with dedicated, competent characters like Vincent D'Agosta and Laura Hayward. Just as often played straight with their superiors. Appears to be the case with the Kansas Police in Still Life with Crows, but the habit gets subverted when the Obstructive Cop really just wanted a chance to solve something for himself, and helps Pendergast take down the killer. The Italian police in Brimstone actually are quite helpful and forthcoming, at least until the end when D'Agosta fingers one of the country's most influential and prominent figures as the Big Bad, right up to convincing the police to storm the guy's fortress... then fails to produce any supporting evidence. Mortified and humiliated, the formerly helpful Italian police captain quickly turns on him. | |
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Christmas Episode | |
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Christmas Episode: White Fire. | |
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The Watson | |
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The Watson: Anyone who works with Pendergast, but especially D'Agosta. Lampshaded in the way Pendergast talks with him. Pendergast even says "Elementary my dear Viola," at the end of Book of the Dead. | |
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Tsundere | |
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Tsundere: Margo, somewhat, in the film and in Reliquary (in the latter, it's due to her experience with Mbwun). Susana Cabeza de Vaca in Mount Dragon, who even gets together with Carson. | |
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Shared Universe | |
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Shared Universe: All of the duo's non-Pendergast novels take place in the same universe as the main series (with the possible exception of Riptide). The Gideon Crew series takes place in it as well. | |
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Posthumous Character | |
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Posthumous Character: Helen And additionally Enoch Leng, aka Antoine Pendergast. | |
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Two-Part Trilogy | |
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Two-Part Trilogy: Inverted. The main plot of Brimstone is indeed largely unrelated with the main storyline of Dance of Death and Book of the Dead, but the Diogenes subplot is clearly presented and the novel ends in a definite cliffhanger that leads into the following books. Fever Dream apparently resolves what happened to Pendergast's wife, even though it ends on a Cliffhanger. Cold Vengeance shows that the truth is much more complicated, and Two Graves is an Immediate Sequel. | |
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Big Bad | |
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The Italian police in Brimstone actually are quite helpful and forthcoming, at least until the end when D'Agosta fingers one of the country's most influential and prominent figures as the Big Bad, right up to convincing the police to storm the guy's fortress... then fails to produce any supporting evidence. Mortified and humiliated, the formerly helpful Italian police captain quickly turns on him. | |
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Odd Couple | |
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Odd Couple: Pendergast and D'Agosta. | |
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Da Chief | |
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Da Chief: Rocker. | |
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The Big Easy | |
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The Big Easy: Where Pendergast comes from. | |
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Cliffhanger | |
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Fever Dream apparently resolves what happened to Pendergast's wife, even though it ends on a Cliffhanger. Cold Vengeance shows that the truth is much more complicated, and Two Graves is an Immediate Sequel. | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: Pendergast occasionally voices his disdain for modern popular fiction, particularly of the sort that Preston & Child write. | |
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Breakout Character | |
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Breakout Character: The main character in Relic and Reliquary was anthropology post-grad Margo Green, with FBI Agent Pendergast being a supporting character alongside Lt. D'Agosta. Indeed, in the movie version of Relic the Pendergast character was removed completely to focus on Green and D'Agosta instead. However, Pendergast proved so popular that the authors made him the focus of the following books in the series, so much so that the series of novels has become informally named after him. | |
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Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene | |
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Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene: The authors commonly build suspense by switching back and forth between characters' story lines at critical moments. | |
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Alone with the Psycho | |
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Alone with the Psycho: Several times. | |
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Torches and Pitchforks | |
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Torches and Pitchforks: A mob burned down the Pendergast mansion in New Orleans. | |
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Crossover | |
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Crossover: The short story "Gaslighted" pits Pendergast against Slappy the Dummy. | |
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Cain and Abel | |
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Cain and Abel: Pendergast and his brother Diogenes. An inversion of the usual setup, since Diogenes is the younger of the pair. | |
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Never Found the Body | |
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Never Found the Body: Diogenes but come on, No One Could Survive That!. | |
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Haunted House | |
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Haunted House: The Beaux Arts mansion that Pendergast inherited. | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
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Beware the Nice Ones: Pendergast, D'Agosta, Hayward, and even Nora. | |
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