Reliquary

Pendergast, Book 2

By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Hidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by those who walk the streets above. There lies the ultimate secret of the Museum Beast.

When two grotesquely deformed skeletons are found deep in the mud off the Manhattan shoreline, museum curator Margo Green is called in to aid the investigation. Margo must once again team up with police lieutenant D'Agosta and FBI agent Pendergast, as well as the brilliant Dr. Frock, to try and solve the puzzle. The trail soon leads deep underground, where they will face the awakening of a slumbering nightmare.

Prolong the suspense: listen to the first book, Relic.©2008 Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (P)2008 Brilliance Audio

Critic reviews

The netherworld of New York City...proves as shuddery a setting for the authors' latest scientific monster mash as the American Museum of Natural History did for their bestselling Relic, to which this is the sequel. ( Publishers Weekly)
"This should do for the New York subway system what Jaws did for Long Island beaches." ( Booklist)
"Dick Hill's reading of this fascinating sequel to Relic builds the suspense and horror." ( AudioFile)

So So Read

Would you listen to Reliquary again? Why?

No, got the full story now

Would you be willing to try another book from Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child ? Why or why not?

Probably not. Characters are shallow. Need better fact checking, vitamin D deficiency causes rickets, not scurvy, as we are told many times.

What does Dick Hill bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Adds dimension to the reading process

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

No

Good story, great narration.

Good story, but I could have done without the cheesy 90` strong woman routine. Let’s just say there are no women in this book that goes un-flattered, and it’s not subtle about it.

That said, the story is fun, and there are some genuinely unsettling moments here. The narrator is great, and a big improvement over the mush mouthed idiot that read the first book in the series.

It was actually the fact that this had a different narrator that made me pick this up in the first place, so if you, like me hated the narrator in “The Relic”, give this one a go.

1st book of the series

I finished Crimson shores and I enjoyed it so much I decided to go to the beginning .
Very talented writers, and they really know how to spin a tale.

Absolutely fantastic!

Remarkable writing. The pulse of this story takes the breathe away and to realize it is part truth yet, parts are fictional is pretty damn scary. Makes you wonder.

Good read

This is the answer to Relic's cliffhanger. The underground of New York becomes a kind of petri dish for the development of genetic manipulation al la the Mbwun model. The plot moves quickly, due in part that readers are already familiar with the main characters. Well-drawn characters Margo Green, Vincent D'Agosta and Bill Smithback are all back to join Pendergast in a desperate effort to prevent catastrophe. Dick Hill does a good job as narrator.