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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 7542182" data-attributes="member: 508"><p>Challenge accepted.</p><p></p><p>FBI Special Agent Aloysius X. L. Pendergast is somewhat of a literary cross between Sherlock Holmes and Fox Mulder of the X-Files. He's brilliant, with a photographic memory and a top-notch education; his family comes from old money, so he's very well off and is somewhat of a gourmand. He generally takes those cases which are especially intriguing to him, generally those of an "X-Files" nature with something weird about them, although I believe his specialty is technically criminal profiling (especially when it comes to serial killers). He's a distinctive figure: tall, albino, wearing black suits almost exclusively. He's also a Southern gentleman (from Louisiana), with impeccable manners and quite a bit of charm, but also the ability to manipulate people into doing as he sees fit. (It's cathartic reading him tearing into some arrogant clown in the course of a given novel - nobody does a tear-down like Pendergast!)</p><p></p><p>The first book in the series is <em>Relic</em> followed immediately by its sequel, <em>Reliquary</em>. Those are the first two appearances by Agent Pendergast but he's not the main character; it isn't until the third book in the series (<em>the Cabinet of Curiosities</em>) where he takes center stage, but he's the main protagonist from that point on. That might be a good point to start if you're generally interested in Pendergast as a character, although the first two novels are good reads as well.</p><p></p><p>What you can expect from an Agent Pendergast novel: a well-written thriller with engaging personalities, a plot based on the real world with a not-too-far-out-there extrapolation into "unknown but technically possible" areas (so you won't be running into space aliens like you would on "The X-Files," but an occasional genetic mutation is fair game), and a fast-paced, engaging story that definitely makes you want to keep reading. (Case in point: I went to bed at 9:30 PM and read until 11:45 PM; woke up about 2:00 AM, couldn't get back to sleep so ended up reading another couple of hours, and finally finished it off this morning after getting up for the day. I started it Christmas evening, reading 50-75 pages a night for the first three nights.)</p><p></p><p>Johnathan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richards, post: 7542182, member: 508"] Challenge accepted. FBI Special Agent Aloysius X. L. Pendergast is somewhat of a literary cross between Sherlock Holmes and Fox Mulder of the X-Files. He's brilliant, with a photographic memory and a top-notch education; his family comes from old money, so he's very well off and is somewhat of a gourmand. He generally takes those cases which are especially intriguing to him, generally those of an "X-Files" nature with something weird about them, although I believe his specialty is technically criminal profiling (especially when it comes to serial killers). He's a distinctive figure: tall, albino, wearing black suits almost exclusively. He's also a Southern gentleman (from Louisiana), with impeccable manners and quite a bit of charm, but also the ability to manipulate people into doing as he sees fit. (It's cathartic reading him tearing into some arrogant clown in the course of a given novel - nobody does a tear-down like Pendergast!) The first book in the series is [i]Relic[/i] followed immediately by its sequel, [i]Reliquary[/i]. Those are the first two appearances by Agent Pendergast but he's not the main character; it isn't until the third book in the series ([i]the Cabinet of Curiosities[/i]) where he takes center stage, but he's the main protagonist from that point on. That might be a good point to start if you're generally interested in Pendergast as a character, although the first two novels are good reads as well. What you can expect from an Agent Pendergast novel: a well-written thriller with engaging personalities, a plot based on the real world with a not-too-far-out-there extrapolation into "unknown but technically possible" areas (so you won't be running into space aliens like you would on "The X-Files," but an occasional genetic mutation is fair game), and a fast-paced, engaging story that definitely makes you want to keep reading. (Case in point: I went to bed at 9:30 PM and read until 11:45 PM; woke up about 2:00 AM, couldn't get back to sleep so ended up reading another couple of hours, and finally finished it off this morning after getting up for the day. I started it Christmas evening, reading 50-75 pages a night for the first three nights.) Johnathan [/QUOTE]
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