Agent Pendergast · Book 1
Relic
- Published
- 1 January 1995
- Pages
- 471
- ISBN-13
- 9780812543261
- Type
- novel
About this book
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's 1995 debut, "Relic" launches the Agent Pendergast series at the New York Museum of Natural History, introducing the aristocratic, unflappable FBI agent whose methods run well outside Bureau procedure; it was adapted into a 1997 film.
Its place in Agent Pendergast
Relic is book 1 in the Agent Pendergast series. It is followed by Reliquary. 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 9781491576724
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780812543261