Dance of Death.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Audiobook review)

From: Kliatt | Date: March 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

DANCE OF DEATH. Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. 2005. Read by Scott Brick. 14 cds. 17 hrs. Books on Tape. 1-4159-1796-5. $76.80. Vinyl; plot notes. SA

Preston and Child are known for tense, macabre, escapist thrillers, refreshingly short on the gratuitously brutal details that characterize too many detective novels. This one is up to their usual standard. Its protagonist, FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast, returns, reports of his death in a previous book being much exaggerated. Pendergast has more in common with the Count of Monte Cristo than with any modern-day detective: a ...

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