The Agent Pendergast Series
Author: Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Published: 1995 - Present
Thoughts and Opinions
I read my first of these while at Camp Pendleton, sitting in my car, while assigned to cut grass while my unit was getting ready to go to Afghanistan and I was transitioning out. It sounded like a punishment until I get assigned there. Good times. The first one I read was Fever Dream. I've mostly read these and then bought them on Audible because I either lost my original copies, they were damaged, or they never got unpacked.
I did not read these in order, nor listen to them in order. The first on I listened to was The Obsidian Chamber on my way down to Alabama for the first time to visit my soon to be grad school advisor. It was a good book and I still sometimes think back on it. It's kind of a unique on considering how Protctor, Constance, and Diogenes are kind of cast in roles outside their norm.
An interesting thing to note for listening to these. There were I think three different narrators and they are all decent and have different accents and difference cadences. These are especailly noticable when it comes to how they portray D'Agosta and especially Pendergast himself. I think Rene Aubergenois did Pendergast the best, but that could be biased by the fast that he was the first narrator for a book I listened to in this series.
In order of publishing:
Relic (1995)
This was a good book and a not so great movie. I enjoyed the story, I found the computer usage of the time interesting. Pendegast is not fully filled out as a character, and neither is D'Agosta. I think Margo Green was in this as well. Defintely worth the read.
Reliquary(1997)
A good sequel to Relic, definitely worth reading as well.
The Cabinet of Curiosities (2002)
I listened to this in Alabama while doing field work in the summer. Hoo it was hot. This is an interesting and good book. It explain ol Enoch Leng and where he comes from. He'll come up a lot more later in the series.
Still Life with Crows (2003)
We get out first introduction to Cory and a weird and wild story that isn't very predictable. Pendergast is in Kansas and things get weird. I listened to this one in Alabama as well.
The Diogenes Trilogy
Brimstone (2004)
Ah, I enjoyed this one. Our first introduction to Diogenes. Count Fosco is a luny, and is doing some gruesome crimes that look like they are divine in origin, but no, just a clever, evil device. This book leads right into the next. I don't think I ever actually finished this reading it in the paper, but definitely did listening to it. Solid ending.
Verdict