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Brimstone
- Paperback
- Author: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
- Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
- Release Date: May 2005
- ISBN-10: 0446696501
- ISBN-13: 9780446696500
- List Price: $13.95
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryA body is found in the attic of a fabulous Long Island estate. There is a hoofprint scorched into the floor, and the stench of sulfur chokes the air. When FBI Special Agent Pendergast investigates the gruesome crime, he discovers that thirty years ago four men conjured something unspeakable. Has the devil come to claim his due? |
Customer Reviews
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Pendergast saga
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Well done murder mystery in the fashion of Sir Conan Doyle. I enjoy this genre very much as it allows escapism from travails of a busy and frustrating day. the characters are alive with description, the action just enough, and the solution to the mystery fascinating.
great read.
lsg
Novels
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These two authors are fantastic. I can't recommend their books too highly. Fantastic read, all of them.
not their best
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I've read most of their work and Pendergast is one of my favorite modern day literary characters, but this was one of their weaker efforts. It dragged in the middle and seemed to sidetrack a bit too much and lacked the punch I usually expect. The end was very good reading and a setup for their next book Dance of Death which I have already picked up and will start on right away.
Another "must read" from Preston/Child
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Brimstone was a fabulous, easy to read tale that is exactly what we've all come to expect from Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. I haven't read a Preston/Child book since Riptide and had forgotten how great their work is. Brimstone is a great tale that lets the supernatural-leaning part of your mind run wild with suspicions and a little bit of fear as the book reintroduces Agent Pendergast and Vincent DaGosta to us all over again.
Brimstone takes who from the frenzy of New York City to the charm of Italy. Our heroes are again pitted against some vile enemies as they attempt to solve two bizarre murders in New York and another in Italy. Brimstone allowed my imagination to run rampant as it led me skillfully through the story. With the back story always running, keeping my hooked, I have now picked up the books that follow Brimstone so that I can find out what happens.--That's it though, no more spoiler!
Brimstone is a great book, not only for fans of Preston/Child, but also for anyone who enjoys a good read and wants to get their head into a book and away from the world for a few hours.
Timothy Lassiter, author of Three Degrees of Separation and The Devil You Know
Good, but not the best P&C
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I took this book with me on a trip for a beach read. Being a Preston and Child fan, I looked forward to reading another Pendergast mystery. However, unusual for me, I had a hard time getting into this book. There was the initial hook of the first murder, but after that the book lost me for a bit and I found myself re-reading pages that I seemed to have skimmed over and not comprehended (I thought from boredom). But, I have to truthfully admit that the lure of the landscapes in Costa Rica probably played a large role in that boredom with a book! Once I knuckled down and paid attention to the storyline, it was a standard P&C effort, though in my opinion, not their best.
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