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Loading... Brimstone (Pendergast #5) (original 2004; edition 2005)by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Work InformationBrimstone by Douglas Preston (2004)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. (2004)Very good thriller as FBI agent Pendergast tries to figure out how people are being killed in a manner that suggests the Devil did it. Seems to end with Pendergast's death, but wait maybe not.From Publishers WeeklyFans of cerebral action adventure novels know that, outside of Michael Crichton, no one delivers the goods like the veteran writing team of Preston and Child (Relic; Still Life with Crows; etc.). As if invigorated by their recent solo efforts (Child: Utopia, etc.; Preston: The Codex, etc.), the two now deliver their best novel ever, an extravagant tale of international intrigue. As their admirers know, one reason Preston and Child thrillers work is because most feature arguably the most charismatic detective in contemporary fiction: FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast, a wealthy, refined yet ruthless descendant of Holmes who's very much his own character. Pendergast, as well as other Preston and Child semiregulars, notably rough-hewn former NYPD cop Vincent D'Agosta, Watson to Pendergast's Sherlock, tread nearly every page of this vastly imagined, relentlessly enjoyable thriller. The body of a notorious art critic is found in his Hamptons, L.I., mansion, wholly burned, with a cloven hoofprint nearby: the devil's work? [...] Erudite, swiftly paced, brimming (occasionally overbrimming) with memorable personae and tense set pieces, this is the perfect thriller to stuff into a beach bag. Same old review for this book, as in, enjoyable, but nothing spectacular, took me too long to read and we all know what that means... A bunch of characters return, some new ones added, including Pendergast's brother, who is implied but never actually met...or is he? Big twist ending for this one, but the inclusion of more books in the series kind of ruins that, I'd say. Anyway, no need to make this review run on and on, the main theme behind the review for almost every book in this series remains the same.
De nuevo el talento del tándem Preston-Child se conjuga para ofrecernos una excelente mezcla de terror, investigación policial y aventuras, en esta ocasión aderezada con toques de novela gótica. Nuestro viejo conocido, el inspector Pendergast, se tendrá que enfrentar a una serie de asesinatos de tintes diabólicos. La investigación lo conducirá hasta una extravagante familia italiana, propietaria de un violín de una valor incalculable. AwardsDistinctions
Fiction.
Suspense.
Thriller.
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There were actually parts of the book I liked. I thought the whole set up with the spontaneous human combustion and the history of the phenomena and the exploration of an old pact with the devil with all the literary and historic references was quite good. But 700 pages later with the over the top aforementioned disparate plot point all spooling out. It was just too much. It 'jumped the shark,' as they say.
I try to avoid a lot of genre mystery stuff for all the reasons. Thin unbelievable characters, preposterous plot twists, countless peril and rescue scenes. I probably won't read the ones that came before or after in the series, unless I really need something mindless in an airport sometime. Though it does end in a cliffhanger, so maybe I'll change my mind. ( )