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Fear - Grab des Schreckens - Ein Fall für Special Agent Pendergast (Gekürzt)
Fear - Grab des Schreckens - Ein Fall für Special Agent Pendergast (Gekürzt)
Fear - Grab des Schreckens - Ein Fall für Special Agent Pendergast (Gekürzt)
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Fear - Grab des Schreckens - Ein Fall für Special Agent Pendergast (Gekürzt)

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Kaum findet Special Agent Pendergast seine jahrelang totgeglaubte Frau wieder, verliert er sie erneut: Helen wird vor seinen Augen entführt und schließlich tatsächlich umgebracht. Pendergast ist am Boden zerstört und verschanzt sich in seinem Apartment. Währenddessen wird sein Partner Lieutenant D'Agosta von einer bizarren Mordserie auf Trab gehalten, deren Spur schließlich zu Pendergast führt. Widerwillig beginnt der Special Agent zu ermitteln und kommt schon bald einem Geheimnis von Helen auf die Spur, das sein Leben von Grund auf verändert ...
LanguageDeutsch
PublisherArgon Verlag
Release dateJun 20, 2013
ISBN9783839812228
Fear - Grab des Schreckens - Ein Fall für Special Agent Pendergast (Gekürzt)

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    The 12th in the Pendergast series. Sadly, the series is declining in interest. The Heleniad, his wife's history, is more rote genre with the action and plot details less interesting than earlier books. I think the character and the series is becoming sterile and a bit predictable. Pendergast no longer has the depth and unpredictability that made him interesting in previous books.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Climax to the series was a little disappointing.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Great story arc, in the middle of this series, which I'm sure has not come completely to an end.
    And one or 2 of those 'I'll explain it all to you later...' deals that drive me nuts because they almost never do, were explained. FINALLY!!!

  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The Pendergast books known as "The Helen Trilogy" -- named for Pendergast's wife -- are much easier to understand if they're read in the right order! The first book is Fever Dream. I was well into Two Graves, the third book, wondering how in the world (and when) would my questions about the plot be answered, when I discovered I had inadvertently skipped Cold Vengeance. So I kicked myself, put Two Graves on hold, and went back to read Cold Vengeance. With some relief I was able to recover some continuity among the books. The three books definitely need to be read together, and in order, to get the full story.

    I enjoyed Two Graves but I question the need to include the subplots regarding Constance and Dr. Felder, on one hand, and Corrie Swanson and her father, on the other hand. Neither of these actually qualify as subplots, as they are not integral to the rest of the story. Either could've been published separately as short stories without diminishing the main thrust of this novel.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I just love Agent Pendergast. Keep them coming
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5

    While the past few novels in this series have been stellar, or just close to it, this one seems to have missed that boat. And with the two subplots, and all the jumping back and forth between them, it got a little confusing for me. I still enjoyed it, but.....not quite as much as the others.

    Subplot 1 is about a character we've come to really like but it really doesn't involve her. It involves another character trying to find out about her, and while his adventure does take a turn for the bizarre, it felt out of place here. It seems more like......padding that slowed down the momentum of the A-list plot. We get a nice bit of extra information and resolution at the end, and I can see how it's important, but considering how much is glossed over with this (and other) plots, it still feels like extra padding.

    Subplot 2 involves another character we've come to really like, but that story too take a left turn and goes off on its own. That story rolls along, rolls along, rolls along, and is cut off when the A-list plot takes over for the long haul to its resolution. I was afraid subplot 2 would be left hanging (much like another plot was left hanging in Cold Vengeance) but no, it was kinda sorta resolved with a throwaway line at the end of the book. After all that was put into it, that's how it ended? Maybe it will be explained more in the next book, but that just shows how out of place it is in this volume.

    I don't know, I feel like I'm asking to have my cake and eat it too. I know we have the Constance Green story sort of simmering in the background for far too long now, but I hope it doesn't become a habit that storylines are started but not resolved for several books. As a huge fan of the series I can promise the authors that I'll always read the next book, you don't have to dangle the same carrot over many volumes. There's a fine line between creating anticipation and stringing the reader along.

    So my final verdict on Two Graves? It's a great Pendergast adventure and it introduces some interesting complications to his life that hold promise for future books. I might not like so much one of those complications (it could have easily been, ah, 'prevented' in the course of this book, and it feels a little too easy plotwise) but oh well.

    One thing I must say; while listening to this audiobook, I was interrupted quite often, continuously, and reading it/listening to it seemed to take days. And every time the kids would walk in, I would hear, "the Nazi's, again, mother?" Lol. And by the end of the book, I was SO tired of nazi's...! And the name Esterhazy. And good/bad twins..... 3 stars, for making me wish I had something else to read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Another great read in the Pendergast series. While some of these books aren't always a 5-star read, they're still incredibly enjoyable and I always find myself looking to grab the next one of the series at Barnes & Noble when it gets released each year. Hats off to Pendergast and all of his investigations.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    A few real twists here in the Pendergast arc but the other storylines are shallow and so obvious to the point of being moronic.

    Yes, I still liked it but I'm missing my old Pendergast and still not liking the direction he is going. I'm hoping with this that the old Pendergast will emerge again.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Agent Pendergast has been the main subject of all these books and over the years he has dealt with his very dysfunctional family; an aunt who was an insane murderer, a brother that also was insane and and a murder, a 130 year old adopted daughter - so you can see insanity and murder is something he understands very well. In this installment he finds his dead wife to be not so dead and then finds she is very dead plus a couple of other real surprises. Through it all, Preston/Child once again brings a very interesting and suspenseful story to their fans. Great book!
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I am so happy to be finished with this. I have never read any of the Pendergast series before and, from what I can tell from this one, you really don't need to in order to understand which ever one you pick up. It doesn't seem to build much on previous characters. Let me put it this way, I was never in the dark on anything except in the very beginning when they referred to the main character by two different names, but never really let you know that it was the same person. You figure it out later, and it all makes sense after that, but still. That bugged me.

    All in all, I was not a fan of this in any way shape or form. There were too many sub-stories that took away from the main plot and really had very little to do with the main story to begin with. In my opinion, this is the epitome of a serial novel. By that, I mean a series that should have wrapped up long ago, but continues on because it has such a loyal fan base. The best compliment I could give this would be that the characters are well developed for the most part and are less than interesting, but far from boring.

    Overall, I would not recommend this unless you desperately need a distraction on a long plane ride or a mindless novel to bring to the beach. It is your stereotypical, post WWII (modern era), Nazis are bad guys still trying to create their perfect race, novel.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Two Graves by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
    3.5 Stars

    For twelve years, FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast believed his young wife, Helen, died in an accident. Then he was told she'd been murdered. Now he discovers Helen is alive. Just as he finally finds her, their reunion is cut short when Helen is abducted by a sinister ex-Nazi group. Two Graves concludes the “Helen Trilogy” and follows Fever Dreams and Cold Vengeance. I would not recommend reading these out of order since there are a lot of woven threads from the two previous novels. Many of the cliffhangers from Cold Vengeance are picked up and concluded in Two Graves.

    I love the Pendergast novels even though Aloyisius is out of control in the past couple of them. His mental state is clearly on edge after seeing Helen kidnapped and he becomes completely different from the Pendergast we've known over the years. There's a lot of impulsive action and not enough rationale thought which isn't like him. The plot involves neo Nazis working on genetic experiments in the Amazon jungle. I personally think this type of plot has been done numerous times but there is enough of a twist to this one that I forgave the authors. I kept wondering why Helen never told Aloysius about her past. Nevertheless there's a surprising twist that will give Pendergast a new direction in the future as well as a new villain we are bound to see again.

    Two Graves has at least two other story lines that barely connect to the main plot. Corrie Swanson returns with her own side story. She finally meets her father and attempts to help him solve a problem that could put him in jail. In the second one we return to Constance and her story where some of the questions we had about her are answered. D'Agosta is backand there is some progress on his character.

    I hope Preston/Childs give us a new Pendergast novel soon and they return to the elements that made the first books so good. I want to see Pendergast and D'Agosta working cases together as a team. I miss the cerebral, brooding Sherlockian Pendergast. I know both authors work on their own individual novels as well as their new character, Gideon Crew. I just hope they are not getting stretched too far because I would really miss all the characters in the Pendergast family.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    A decent adventure yarn, but a crap entry in the Pendergast series. There's a plethora of unnecessary subplots and the authors seem embarrassed enough that they've pretty much wiped the developments from the series two books later. Shrug shrug shrug.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Over the course of the previous books in the series Pendergast has been led to believe that his wife Helen was killed by a lion and then died at the hands of a murderer. As this book opens we learn that neither of these is true and Helen is still very much alive. At their touching reunion in Central Park, where despite everything Pendergast wants to begin their life together again Helen is abducted. With his dream of a happy life together torn from before his very eyes Pendergast slips into a deep depression and opens his door to no one. The only thing that draws him back from the brink of suicide is a series of murders committed by someone Pendergast believes may be his brother (Presumed dead). Well, Aloysius is about to discover Helen left behind more than the mystery of where she has been for the past several years.

    Mr. Preston and Mr. Child never disappoint with this series. Do you have to suspend belief a little bit, of course you do, otherwise it would not be a Pendergast novel. But the roller coaster this book rides makes it worthwhile. I particularly enjoyed the fact that the Constance Green story was featured a little more prominently. Personally, I wouldn’t mind if the authors added a book to the series where her story is the main one.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Six-word review: Personally motivated, Pendergast goes into overdrive.Extended review:The conclusion of the "Helen" trilogy is more like a B movie than most of the others I've read so far in the Pendergast series (this is number 12). It boasts a full complement of murder, mystery, and mayhem, maybe even overfull. Special Agent Pendergast must overcome a Holmes-like malaise and launch himself into a remote destination in order to penetrate the heart of a dastardly Nazi plot for world domination. Special effects include not only bursts of gore and hails of bullets but violent explosions and, yes, flight and pursuit through dark, watery underground tunnels. We meet hitherto unknown members of Pendergast's family, learn the full extent of the terrible secrets his late wife had concealed from him, and discover an aspect of Pendergast's character that has not been seen before.There are also a couple of bizarre subplots that one might expect to see come together at some point, but they don't. Fodder for future episodes, I'm guessing.All this crazed adventure is borderline corny, verging on self-parody; and yet by now I know the series well enough to regard it as just part of the fun. Despite some superficial (and probably not accidental) similarities to Sherlock Holmes, Aloysius Pendergast is more like a Bruce Willis action-movie character, albeit with a heaping dose of class and a limitless bankroll.I'm still following.I'd just like to whisper an aside to the authors: No, I'm not expecting literature when I read your books; but please go look up "nexus" in the dictionary and stop using it as if it meant "crux." Also please use the search function to notice how many instances you have of someone or something "sporting" something, as in "The village sported stuccoed buildings" (page 344), "most sported classic Nordic looks" (page 346), and "Many of the buildings sported window boxes" (page 347), and replace at least half of them. (You might also check the frequency of "gingerly.") And while I'm at it, I'm tired of seeing "dogleg" (or "doglegged") in place of "corner" or "angle."That's all. Thank you. Carry on.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Another great entry in the Pendergast series.

    Extremely painful to see him constantly fail and hit rock bottom, yet somehow it was also refreshing as he is usually several steps ahead of everyone and always at the top of his game. The past few books have certainly taken a psychological toll on Special Agent Pendergast, especially the events that open this book.

    I wonder how much more the authors can throw at this guy and keep him sane enough to still be a viable protaganist. Yes, he takes things in stride and eventually overcomes the challenges thrown at him ... but good grief! Good thing this is fiction!

    The Agent Pendergast series is good stuff!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    There's nothing like a Preston Child "Pendergast' novel!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I'm getting less and less enthralled with the Pendergast series. Which essentially means I'm less enthralled with Pendergast himself. This is the third, and what I assume, final, book in the Helen trilogy. "Two Graves" is in many ways three different stories. One story follows Pendergast and D'Agosta as they investigate harrowing murders in several NYC hotels. This then shifts to South America after a rather big reveal--which I won't divulge here. But the events in South America involve only Pendergast (and other, new characters) and not D'Agosta, who once again seems to be put on the sideline for much of the book (as does Laura Hayward).The second story involves Corrie Swanson, a character first introduced back in "Still Life With Crows." This story line has little to do with the overall plot and I found it rather mundane and pointless. Which is disappointing because I loved the character and her interactions with Pendergast in the aforementioned book.Finally, we follow Dr. Felder as he investigates Constance Green's past. As with the Corrie plot, there's not a lot of reason for this to be a part of the main book. If Preston/Child want to explore these characters further, maybe they should do so in stand-alone novels and not wrap them up in a Pendergast novel. The characters are obviously tied to Pendergast, but here, there's little to no interaction with him, so what's the point?Not long after the big reveal, Pendergast goes into a major free fall; this is the most interesting part of the story for me. The special agent is always in control so to see him lose it so was quite interesting.Preston and Child's knack for weaving a perceived supernatural thriller, with Pendergast and D'Agosta hot on the trail, has lost a great deal of steam over the last several books. I'm hoping they can find their stride again because I'm losing patience and faith in this series.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I think the authors are trying to pack in too many stories. I miss the supernatural stuff. I gave it 3 stars because it was still a fast action-packed read, but the Pendergast books are starting to lose their fascination.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The 12th volume in the Aloysius Pendergast series of crime novels has our intrepid detective briefly reunited with his wife (thought long dead), and introduced to some loving teen-age sons he never knew he had. Of course, the joyous reunions is ruined by those damned Brazilian Nazis, but with a title like Two Graves, there has to be some reason to dig them in the first place. Additionally, we find out more about Constance's story, and Pendergast's student apprentice solves a case of her own, one involving her father and a scam at a car dealership. As usual, the highlight is the reading by actor Rene Auberjonois. While I find these stories quite absurd, having them told by one of my favorite actors ads an entertainment factor that transcends the text itself. I haven't been reading them in order, but story lines arching across books are kept to a minimum. I've read enough of them now to get most of the references when they appear. If you're going to dive into this series, though, I would recommend doing so in order.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    As a long-time reader and fan of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, I wasn't disappointed with their latest entry in the Pendergast series (#12), but didn't have the same feeling at the end of it as I have with most of the others. This book brings back all of the recurring characters in the long running series and each get their moment in the spotlight. Pendergast rightly takes center stage as he should, but also appearing are his friend and ally, Vincent D'Agosta, his ward Constance Greene, Corrie Swanson, Pendergast's wife, Helen, and cameos by some other minor characters.In this novel, Pendergast frees his wife from the clutches of Nazi kidnappers only to see her taken again. As he deals with this situation, Preston and Child creates sub-plots for the aforementioned recurring characters. Some of these sidebars feed the main plot that Pendergast is part of, some are head shakers that may the reader to wonder why they are included in this book (as I did). I know that fans of the series want to see these characters in each Pendergast novel, I just wish that the authors could have tied them all more closely to the plot.Preston and Child's writing is brilliant, as always, and the book moves swiftly along. I really enjoy their descriptive scenes and wonderful vocabulary. I really have only two complaints, though, about the book. 1) Some of the later scenes involving Pendergast and the Nazis were really overdone and in need of an editor's red pen. Perhaps, the duo was told to provide so many thousand words and had to stick to the plan. And, 2) those unfamiliar with the series will have little clue about the back story and history between Pendergast and the characters mentioned earlier. Not that this is all bad though, because it may cause the new reader to the series to go back and start with "Relic".Fans of the series won't be disappointed and should rush out and grab a copy. Those new to the world of Pendergast will hopefully start looking for copies of the first 11 books and prepare for some great reading.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Agent Pendergast desperately tracks the shadowy group that has kidnapped his wife, long thought dead. The chase culminates in an outcome that leaves Pendergast bleakly devastated to the point of suicide. A mysterious and strangely adept serial killer in New York City draws his attention, though, and launches him on a pursuit that leads to South America and the hidden denizens of Hitler's eugenics program that have been secretly linked to his wife and her family since WWII. This is the darkest, grittiest book in the Pendergast series yet, and is a welcome change for the vulnerability we now see in a man whose one drawback has been that he is too competent, too elegantly unflappable to be true.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Impeccable narration by René Auberjunois could not overcome my disappointment at this implausible, fragmented, and frustrating "visit" with Special Agent Pendergast. Three or four separate plots--and I do mean separate--never connected the characters we usually enjoy as an ensemble. Pendergast was in South America, Corey Swanson was in Kansas, Constance Green was following her own story line, and NYPD Detective Vincent D'Agosta was mere window-dressing. None of the plots overlapped or worked together, yet none was strong enough to stand alone. They are not improved by being bound together in one volume. I usually enjoy suspending disbelief, at least a little bit, when going on an adventure with Pendergast. But the main plot, focusing on him, was a deadly combination of "timeworn" and "ridiculous." Pendergast remains one of my favorite continuing characters, and I will most likely read the next novel as soon as it's available. By then I hope the bitter taste of this one will have dissipated.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Two GravesBy Douglas Preston & Lincoln ChildMy " in a nutshell" summary...Aloysius Pendergast works to solve another immensely complicated crime!My thoughts after reading this book...Oh me oh my this book was delightful! This was my first book by these authors. I can't believe that I haven't read them before. And even though I have read and thoroughly loved the book...I wish I would have read the books that came before this one...there is even a little note from the authors stating that it old be nice if the two books written just before this one would be read before this one...does that make sense? Aloysius Pendergast is the main character...he is a special agent, amazingly wealthy, and amazingly cunning and brilliant. He discovers that his wife is not dead as was believed for the past 12 years...he has sons...and his life is constantly under threat. There are other recurring characters...D'Agosta is one...and everyone is involved with this operation...even Nazis.What I loved about this book...For me it was discovering Aloysius Pendergast...what an amazing character he is! Everything he does is so cool and calculated...sort of like a James Bond or Sherlock Holmes.What I did not love...I should have read the two books just before this one but I had no clue I should have. This book does ok as a stand lone but I had to get clarification on some of the relationships from my sister...who is an expert on all things Aloysius Pendergast. Final thoughts...An awesome thriller, a complicated plot and totally unbelievable characters make this book a must read...especially for those addicted to this series!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I found this to be disappointing. There were too many disparate storylines - the main one with Pendergast's wife dying and then searching for a killer who appears to be his son, a second unrelated storyline about Cory trying to figure out who framed her father, a third one about Constance and Dr. Felder, and finally Vinny fretting about asking his girlfriend to marry him. I was glad when it was over.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    I love Preston and Child. I love Pendergast; or at least I did. I fought my way through the last several confusing, increasingly pointless books hoping for something to change, for literary redemption; for the books to get their groove back. Sadly, although he can go 700 miles in 6 hours in a rental car, even Pendergast cant convince me that these books will rebound to their former glory. He is a caricature of his former self, a pale ninja who borders on magical--and mental. There is no longer a method to the madness. Information is no longer withheld as intellectual exercise but because much of what happens has no genesis and no explanation. Random, unconnected, and often unexplained things just happen. The plots have become ridiculous, and worse, BORING. Nazis!? Secret South American hideout Naziville?! Hidden children? An unknown twin? Gasp x4!! I watched soaps in college and I am pretty sure I saw something darn similar on daytime TV ages ago. That's how bad it is.I really didn't understand why people were absolutely rage-ranting on Amazon about this book. Now I do. It isn't just that I will never get those hours of my life back, or that I feel stupid for not just stopping, it is that a once great character and a fascinating series have been reduced to drivel.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Lovers of Agent Pendergast may be thrilled or horrified by the opening part of Two Graves. But it is a hint, and perhaps a warning, of the depth of treachery and danger Pendergast will face. I took it as an indication of the depths of his misery. Pendergast doesn't wallow. He acts, and boy, it would have been quite the final act. But I hate spoilers, so I'll try to keep them to a minimum here!I was entranced throughout the story. It lived up to the reputation of the series, with suspense and action to spare even. Well, mostly.With so much going on, about three-quarters of the way through I thought another book would be needed to wrap up the many story lines. Pendergast was hopelessly entangled in South America, rather far for D'Agosta to be of any help. Never mind how they'd left things when D'Agosta and Pendergast had last spoken! Then, in the span of twenty pages, things took such a turn for the worse, I was hoping D'Agosta could come in to help Pendergast.Corrie's story line was a bit confusing, though. Aside from the fact that she found the Nazi papers that drove her into hiding, there was no clear reason for her to be in the story. Perhaps it's going to tie in to the next book, but it didn't seemed related to the story line at all. If I were the sort of person who skips over parts, I would have skipped over those parts. I just didn't see what her subplot had to do with the rest of the story. And with the suspense of the predicament Pendergast had found himself in, it was a bit of a let down to then be taken to suburban Pennsylvania to deal with a framed bank robber.I would've liked more D'Agosta in the story. Usually D'Agosta comes to Pendergast's aid or to assist him, but this story was different. This was really Pendergast's story. He was teetering on the edge much of the time, came close to giving up, didn't care if he lived or died a number of times, was actually suicidal, had to face the grimmest of realities... To add his friend--one of a very few--as a witness to his turmoil might have been too much for him. I would have liked to see the repairing of the relationship between them, though. I needed a bit more than D'Agosta telling Laura that Pendergast once again called him 'my dear Vincent.' Perhaps more in the next book?Don't get me wrong -- Two Graves was gripping, at times shocking, and a true couldn't-put-it-down read. Pendergast got himself into a far worse mess than he has before, came closer to having no escape than I can remember, left behind many more bodies, and faced a far more frightening enemy.As I've read through the Pendergast series, I got used to lining up the next one while I was reading. Now I've caught up. I can't move on to the next one. There isn't a next one. I have to WAIT for it to be written. I'm not happy about that. I've been getting a Pendergast fix about once a month for maybe a year now. What am I going to do now?Mr. Preston? Mr. Child? Get busy!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Excellent Detective Pendergast book. This one finds pendergast at his deepest darkest and then he rallies in spectacular fashion to get the bad guys!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I was eagerly awaiting this book since it was Preston & Child's chance to redeem themselves after the less-than-satisfactory Cold Vengeance. They do redeem themselves to an extent - this story does flesh its characters out more, and doesn't seem to be an attempt to rush through the story. It is more in line with the type of writing these two men are known for - excellent narrative, edge-of-your-seat tension, and the multiple-plot-thread style that keeps you interested in continuing to read.The only negative I can really come up with is that Pendergast is pretty much bludgeoned throughout the book, yet manages to overcome seemingly impossible obstacles throughout. At some point you begin to wonder if P&C have put this guy through enough "bad" that he should have died pages ago. If anything, the "Helen Trilogy" has taken Pendergast way beyond anything one can imagine. [Just as an aside, Dan Brown did the same thing with his "Langdon" character. After the last Langdon story I felt as if enough was enough - the character had been put through too much to be a realistic character with whom one could empathize anymore. Unfortunately, Brown likes the smell of money, and a new Langdon story is forthcoming. I shall not read it.]The story ends in an excellent way - because I don't intend to read any more "Pendergast" stories. All loose threads are tied up nicely, all conflicts resolved in appropriate ways, and it ends in a way that could signal the end of the series. And so it shall be - at least as far as I am concerned.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Maybe whole Pendergast/D'Agosta series is getting tired. Two lines of the narrative, of woman clearing the name of her father and guy looking for certain documented proof, seem completely artificial, serving only to fill the space. As other reviewer noted, 'Pendergast as Jack Bauer' action doesn't really suit the image of agent Pendergast from previous novels (at least in my mind).
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I am very disappointed. Pendergast as Jack Bauer is not Pendergast. And the whole Boys from Brazil theme is overdone. I was worried after the way Cold Vengeance ended so abruptly. My fear is that they may be returning to the really bad writing of the first two books of the Pendergast series.