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.
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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.