Pendergast: The Beginning (Agent Pendergast Series)

Pendergast: The Beginning (Agent Pendergast Series)

From the #1 New York Times bestselling duo Preston and Child comes the Agent Pendergast origin story—a golden opportunity for longtime fans and new readers to learn about Agent Pendergast’s strange and shocking first case. It only took six months for the life of Special Agent Dwight Chambers to crumble around him. First, he lost his partner, and then, tragically, his wife. Returning to work at the New Orleans Field Office, Chambers is dismayed to find himself saddled with mentoring a brand new FBI agent—a certain A. X. L. Pendergast. As Chambers tries to pull himself together, his enigmatic and exasperating junior partner pulls an outrageous stunt that gets both of them suspended. Pendergast welcomes the banishment, because it gives him the opportunity to investigate a peculiar murder in Mississippi that has captured his fancy. Chambers grudgingly goes along. What starts off as a whimsical quest swiftly turns into a terrifying pursuit, as Chambers and Pendergast uncover a string of grisly, ritualistic killings that defy any known serial killer profile.   Thanks in large part to Pendergast’s brilliance and unorthodox methods, they solve the case and find the killer… and that is when the true horror begins. The thrillers of  Douglas Preston  and  Lincoln Child  “stand head and shoulders above their rivals” ( Publishers Weekly ). Preston and Child’s  Relic  and  The Cabinet of Curiosities  were chosen by readers in a National Public Radio poll as being among the one hundred greatest thrillers ever written, and  Relic  was made into a number‑one box office hit movie. They are coauthors of the famed Pendergast series, and their recent novels include  The Cabinet of Dr. Leng, Diablo Mesa, Bloodless, The Scorpion’s Tail, and  Crooked River . In addition to his novels, Preston is the author of the award-winning nonfiction book  The Lost City of the Monkey God . Child is a Florida resident and former book editor who has published eight novels of his own, including such bestsellers as  Chrysalis  and  Deep Storm .