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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780812543261
ISBN: 0812543262
Label: Tor Books
Manufacturer: Tor Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: 1996-01-15
Publisher: Tor Books
Release Date: 2003-12-30
Studio: Tor Books

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Summary: First in a great series.
Comment: "Relic" is the first step on a fantastical and intellectually-stimulating literary journey that is the Agent Pendergrast series. Where else can you find bloodthirsty monsters and fiendish murderers on the same pages that discuss the finer points of Alkan's Grande Sonatine and Beethoven's String Quartets? You also get treated to an incomparable guided historical tour of Manhattan's Museum of Natural History, which is grounded in Mr. Preston's well-researched non-fiction book on the museum, "Dinosaurs in the Attic."

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Summary: Pendergast's "The Relic"
Comment: For lovers of horror stories with a well-developed story line and plenty of mystery, this is an excellent read. I especially like the author's vivid descriptions of gruesome details (the evacuated cranium of a victim) but also the elaborate intertwining of ancient history, modern science, and mysticism. I will never forget the images the author painted of police wading in the monster's lair, the sewers beneath the museum, and describing the strong odor of goat's breath as a harbinger of the monster's arrival on scene. I have bought this book as a gift for others because of its excellent story quality.

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Summary: Taunt, exciting thriller
Comment: After the death of two museum visitors, the museum of Natural History calls in the Police, headed by truculent hard-nosed Lt. D'Agosta, also FBI Agent Pendergast, a quirky and unorthodox investigator from the south. What they discover? They believe a serial killer is on the loose- perhaps intending to derail the museum's new "Superstition" exhibit. What they don't know is something far more sinister lives in the basement of the museum. As the date of the exhibit nears, can the agents and a team of museum scientists get to the bottom of the museum murders before its too late?

I listened to the unabridged audio edition of Relic. The characters were well thought out, the monster interesting and the story exciting. I particularly liked D'Agosta and Dr. Frock. The monster itself was fascinating, and the museum was very cool as the background for this taunt story.

5 stars. Excellent.

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Summary: Relic 5 stars!
Comment: My buddy of mine turned me on to this book "Relic". Although at the time i wasnt a avid reader. Relic really pulled me in & by then i was hooked! It is a very entertaining read & would recommend this book to anyone. Just to let you guys know. Because of reading this book i am now an avid reader. I read all the Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child books without being disappointed!
Keep up the good work guys. Im waiting for the next!!

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Summary: The book is always better than the movie
Comment: How Hollywood producers could mess up what is essentially an action-packed thrill ride of a novel and turn it into a mediocre horror film with Penelope Ann Miller is beyond me. One of the authors used to work at the Museum of Natural History in New York, and the readers are treated to an insider's view of the museum and what goes on during and after business hours. This book still stands as one of their absolute best novels (although Cabinet of Curiosites and Still Life with Crows come close).

A monster is loose in the Museum of Natural History and scientists and police are trying to figure out how to stop it before a huge exhibition opens. The book introduces my favorite fictional detective, Special Agent Pendergast (who reappears in many of their later novels). He is a decorated agent with a genius-level IQ and Sherlock Holmes would probably fare badly when pitted against him.

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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. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human...

But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders.

Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who-or what-is doing the killing. But can she do it in time to stop the massacre?