Synopses & Reviews
The New York Museum of Natural History receives their pilfered gem collection back...ground down to dust. Diogenes, the psychotic killer who stole them in Dance of Death, is throwing down the gauntlet to both the city and to his brother, FBI Agent Pendergast, who is currently incarcerated in a maximum security prison. To quell the PR nightmare of the gem fiasco, the museum decides to reopen the Tomb of Senef. An astounding Egyptian temple, it was a popular museum exhibit until the 1930s, when it was quietly closed. But when the tomb is unsealed in preparation for its gala reopening, the killings and whispers of an ancient curse begin again. And the catastrophic opening itself sets the stage for the final battle between the two brothers: an epic clash from which only one will emerge alive.
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"Brazenly convoluted, swift-going....[A] really good show. Fast, punchy and relentlessly action-packed." Kirkus Reviews
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"Preston and Child's Pendergast series...ends in grand style with this intense and shocking conclusion....Preston and Child have truly saved the best for last. Every story thread thrills, and the novel seems too short, despite the large page count." Library Journal
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"[A] sprawling finale....Fortunately, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child toil like a pharaoh's slaves to build action set pieces so ingenious we forget how contrived they are. (Grade: B)" Entertainment Weekly
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"[Preston and Child] propel the story forward with great skill and without ever leaving readers with a shred of disinterest or boredom. This is not merely quality writing, this is quality storytelling." BookReporter.com
Synopsis
Continuing the breathtaking story begun in the New York Times bestseller Dance of Death, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child present the ultimate showdown between good and evil set against the backdrop of an ancient Egyptian curse.
Synopsis
An FBI agent, rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not commit...
His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime...
A young woman with an extrodinary past, on th edge of a violent breakdown...
An ancient Egyptian tomb with an enigmatic curse, about to be unveiled at a celebrity-studded New York gala...
Memento Mori
About the Author
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child are the coauthors of numerous bestselling novels, among them
The Relic,
Dance of Death,
Brimstone,
Still Life with Crows,
The Cabinet of Curiosities,
Mount Dragon,
Reliquary, and
Riptide.
Douglas Preston worked for the American Museum of Natural History, is a regular contributor to the New Yorker, and in 1989 retraced Coronado's thousand-mile odyssey on horseback. He lives in Maine.
Lincoln Child is a former book editor at St. Martin's Press and has published numerous short-story anthologies. He lives in Convent Station, New Jersey.