Relic

Name: Relic
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.46 (72 reviews)
Author: Douglas Preston
ISBN: 9781423330431

Author: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Series: Pendergast #1

Narrator: David Colacci

Unabridged: 11 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 02/25/2007

Categories: Fiction, Horror

Synopsis

Relic, a Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child thriller that introduces FBI Special Agent PendergastJust days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human...But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders.Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who--or what--is doing the killing. But can she do it in time to stop the massacre?

About Douglas Preston

Douglas Preston is the author of more than thirty books, both fiction and nonfiction, more than twenty of which have been New York Times bestsellers. He has worked as an editor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. His first novel, Relic, coauthored with Lincoln Child, was made into a movie, and launched the famed Pendergast series of novels. His recent nonfiction book, The Monster of Florence, is also being made into a film. In addition to books, Preston writes about archaeology and paleontology for the New Yorker, National Geographic, and Smithsonian.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on September 11, 2022

Didn´t anyone tell them to leave the haunted, bloodsoaked cult object back in the jungle? Sigh Mystical element It´s not as big as one might expect from the title, more focused on the museum and protagonists, but it perfectly fits to show characters' motivations, career ambitions, and investigation m......more

Goodreads review by Mike (the Paladin) on January 03, 2013

This is another book (series of books) I was introduced to by my late wife (we were married 34 years before she passed so there were quite a few books we ended up sharing, sometimes to the surprise of each of us. I introduced her to things like epic fantasy she "introed" me to things like, well Pres......more

Goodreads review by Sandra on August 28, 2021

Days before the New York Museum of Natural History is about to have a huge gala exhibition, people are getting murdered within the museum. Is it a serial killer, or something even more dangerous? This was an extremely enjoyable thriller, and I had a hard time putting it down. I loved the setting, in......more

Goodreads review by Dirk on January 21, 2019

Relic Some thoughts. Now, this isn’t really a review, simply because too much time has passed since I actually read the novel to form any objective and cohesive opinion on its literary merit. What I would like to focus on is what remained with me. I’m sticking to my original rating. This novel is one o......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on January 16, 2015

A good mix of science and suspense. Reminds me of Michael Crichton. Very thrilling - lots of good twists that I did not see coming.......more