Agent Pendergast · Book 7

The Book of the Dead

by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Published
1 January 2006
Pages
582
ISBN-13
9781455582938
Type
novel

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Cover of The Book of the Dead

About this book

Seventh in the series, "The Book of the Dead" (2006, 582 pages) closes out the Diogenes trilogy that Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child built around Pendergast's estranged twin brother and his long-running schemes.

Its place in Agent Pendergast

The Book of the Dead is book 7 in the Agent Pendergast series. It follows Dance of Death. It is followed by The Wheel of Darkness. 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…

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