Pendergast
The Beginning
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4.6 • 554 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling duo Preston and Child comes the Agent Pendergast origin story—a golden opportunity for longtime fans and new readers to learn about Agent Pendergast’s strange and shocking first case.
It only took six months for the life of Special Agent Dwight Chambers to crumble around him. First, he lost his partner, and then, tragically, his wife. Returning to work at the New Orleans Field Office, Chambers is dismayed to find himself saddled with mentoring a brand new FBI agent—a certain A. X. L. Pendergast. As Chambers tries to pull himself together, his enigmatic and exasperating junior partner pulls an outrageous stunt that gets both of them suspended.
Pendergast welcomes the banishment, because it gives him the opportunity to investigate a peculiar murder in Mississippi that has captured his fancy. Chambers grudgingly goes along. What starts off as a whimsical quest swiftly turns into a terrifying pursuit, as Chambers and Pendergast uncover a string of grisly, ritualistic killings that defy any known serial killer profile.
Thanks in large part to Pendergast’s brilliance and unorthodox methods, they solve the case and find the killer… and that is when the true horror begins.
Customer Reviews
Prendergast
Preston and Childs are my favorite authors at this time of my life. So glad I found their work.
A waste of money and time. Shame on Preston & Childs
I'm a huge fan of Preston & Child and Pendergast, I have read every book in the long series. When I saw there was a new release I immediately bought it and settled in for another grand adventure. I expected the usual high quality writing and twisty, mysterious plots, but this sorry excuse of ludicrous, lazy, lousy slop was a DISGRACE! The description of the story was intriguing, but it was all downhill from there. The book was badly, VERY badly written, and it was torturously too long. I thought the darn thing would never end. I kept thinking it would get better, but nope, it just got worse. It got to the point I was skipping entire chapters in exasperation, desperate to put myself out of misery. Finally I couldn't take it anymore and bailed to the last page. The best part of the book was to be rid of it. Preston & Childs should be ashamed of themselves for this shoddy tome.
Always good
Another winner from these gentlemen.