Dance of Death
Picking up right where last year’s BRIMSTONE left off, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s DANCE OF DEATH resurrects their popular, wacko FBI Agent Pendergast character from certain doom, only to have his vengeful, more-wacko brother Diogenes devise (and carry out) a plan to effectively kill Pendergast by killing everyone he cares about in his life.
There’s not the usual supernatural-science bent as previous Preston/Child books carry, but this is definitely one for their fans, as numerous characters from previous books (as far back as THE RELIC) figure into the suspenseful tale. As a result, this is not the book newcomers should start with (that’d probably be THE CABINET OF CURIOSITIES), but those familiar with the writing duo are going to lap it up just as fast as I did.
Even if, like BRIMSTONE, it leaves you hanging for the next sequel (tentative title: BOOK OF THE DEAD), which will conclude this Pendergast trilogy. Can’t wait.
[...] The International Thriller Writers Association is set to produce its first-ever anthology – naturally titled THRILLER – next June. Tagged as “the first pure thriller anthology ever published,” it will be edited by James Patterson and include short stories by the likes of Ted Bell (PIRATE), Lee Child (ONE SHOT), Lincoln Child (DANCE OF DEATH), Greg Iles (BLOOD MEMORY), Alex Kava (ONE FALSE MOVE), John Lescroart (THE MOTIVE), Eric Van Lustbader (MISTRESS OF THE PEARL), David Morrell (CREEPERS), Katherine Neville (THE EIGHT), Michael Palmer (THE SOCIETY), Douglas Preston (TYRANNOSAUR CANYON), James Rollins (MAP OF BONES), M.J. Rose (THE HALO EFFECT) and F. Paul Wilson (the Repairman Jack series), among many others. [...]
[...] Tagged as “the first pure thriller anthology ever published,” it will be edited by James Patterson and include short stories by the likes of Ted Bell (PIRATE), Lee Child (ONE SHOT), Lincoln Child (DANCE OF DEATH), Greg Iles (BLOOD MEMORY), Alex Kava (ONE FALSE MOVE), John Lescroart (THE MOTIVE), Eric Van Lustbader (MISTRESS OF THE PEARL), David Morrell (CREEPERS), Katherine Neville (THE EIGHT), Michael Palmer (THE SOCIETY), Douglas Preston (TYRANNOSAUR CANYON), James Rollins (MAP OF BONES), M.J. Rose (THE HALO EFFECT) and F. Paul Wilson (the Repairman Jack series), among many others. [...]
[...] Following the one-two punch of BRIMSTONE and DANCE OF DEATH, authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child will conclude their Pendergast trilogy this summer with the ominously titled THE BOOK OF THE DEAD. [...]
[...] 7. DANCE OF DEATH by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child I’ve loved these guys ever since I listened to THE RELIC unabridged on a solo drive from Oklahoma to Wisconsin in 1994. Unafraid to introduce the supernatural into otherwise mainstream work, I loved BRIMSTONE and the Agent Pendergast character especially. Can’t wait for the paperback. [...]
[...] • THE BOOK OF THE DEAD – Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child promise to tie up all the loose ends of BRIMSTONE and DANCE OF DEATH with this concluding chapter of their Agent Pendergast trilogy, which they say was really like one big book broken into three. That’s made the wait even harder. I have yet to read anything these guys have written that I didn’t love. (June 6) [...]
[...] • THE BOOK OF THE DEAD – Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child promise to tie up all the loose ends of BRIMSTONE and DANCE OF DEATH with this concluding chapter of their Agent Pendergast trilogy, which they say was really like one big book broken into three. That’s made the wait even harder. I have yet to read anything these guys have written that I didn’t love. (June 6) [...]
[...] His writing partner Preston’s most recent solo work was TYRANNOSAUR CANYON. Together, the bestselling Preston/Child duo are set to release THE BOOK OF THE DEAD – a follow-up to BRIMSTONE and DANCE OF DEATH – on June 6. DEEP STORM will be released sometime in 2007. [...]
[...] “You bet,” she says. “Koontz has THE HUSBAND, which sounds every bit as fast-paced as last year’s VELOCITY. This one’s about a kidnapping. Deaver has THE COLD MOON, another entry in his quadraplegic criminalist Lincoln Rhyme series, and Preston and Child return to tie up the loose ends from last summer’s DANCE OF DEATH with THE BOOK OF THE DEAD.” [...]
[...] Cops, farmers, cabbies – they all have jobs less dangerous than the various employees of the New York Museum of National History. At least according to half a dozen novels by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, from the latest of which – THE BOOK OF THE DEAD – finally wraps up a three-book trilogy begun with BRIMSTONE and DANCE OF DEATH, dealing with FBI Agent Pendergast’s perilous battle with his wildly estranged brother Diogenes, who has pledged to commit “the perfect crime” against millions of innocent lives. [...]
If you’re wanting to read the series in order, you should really start with Relic and Reliquary before Cabinet of Curiosities, then proceed to Still Life with Crows, Brimstone, Dance of Deatha nd then Book of the Dead.
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[...] REVIEWS OF THESE AUTHORS: • THE BOOK OF THE DEAD by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child • DANCE OF DEATH by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child • TYRANNOSAUR CANYON by Douglas [...]
[...] REVIEWS OF THESE AUTHORS: • THE BOOK OF THE DEAD by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child • DANCE OF DEATH by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child • DEEP STORM by Lincoln Child • TYRANNOSAUR CANYON by [...]
[...] standalone books. And they’re also books we feel passionate about. It may seem like BRIMSTONE, DANCE OF DEATH and THE BOOK OF THE DEAD were sequels, but in fact, we plotted all three of those books together. [...]