Agent Pendergast · Book 24
Pendergast: The Beginning
- Published
- 27 January 2026
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN-13
- 9781538765746
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published last, as book twenty-three in January 2026, "Pendergast: The Beginning" is a prequel set in story chronology before "Relic" — Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's 1995 series debut — and can be read either first for chronological backstory or last, as intended, once the character is already familiar.
Its place in Agent Pendergast
Pendergast: The Beginning is book 24 in the Agent Pendergast series. It follows Angel of Vengeance. See the full Agent Pendergast reading order.
Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast is an FBI investigator like no other: a wealthy, aristocratic New Orleans blue-blood with encyclopedic knowledge, unsettling composure, and a habit of solving cases through methods well outside FBI procedure — forensic deduction crossed with historical research, occult folklore and outright derring-do. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child built the series out of their 1995 debut Relic (adapted into the 1997 film), and it has grown into a sprawling saga that ranges from New York…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781538765746