Books : Relic (Pendergast, Book 1)
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by: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
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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: January 15, 1996
Publisher: Tor Books
Release Date: December 30, 2003
Sales Rank: 6434
Studio: Tor Books
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Product Description:
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?
Amazon.com Review:
A series of bizarre and brutal murders is taking place in the halls of the New York Museum of Natural History, only days before a massive exhibition is set to open. Margo Green knows that the killer is something not human, something that's not even supposed to exist. Where did it come from, how did it get into the museum, and how can it be stopped?
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Monster Book with a twisting plot
Relic is a good book. Almost all of the book takes place in the Museum of Natural History in New York. There are many characters that the story follows. The most important character is Margo, a student that is working toward her PhD at the Museum. She is working under a senior scientist at the Museum named Frock.
When two children show up at the Museum dead an investigation is started to find out about the death of the children. Because of the strange nature of the murders an investigator ... Read More
Rating:  - First in a great series.
"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."
Rating: - Pendergast's "The Relic"
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. ... Read More
Rating: - Taunt, exciting thriller
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Relic 5 stars!
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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