Dance of Death.DANCE OF DEATH. Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. 2005. Read by Scott Brick. 14 cds. 17 hrs. Books on Tape. 1-4159-1796-5. $76.80. Vinyl; plot notes. SA Preston and Child are known for tense, macabre, escapist thrillers, refreshingly short on the gratuitously brutal details that characterize too many detective novels. This one is up to their usual standard. Its protagonist, FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast, returns, reports of his death in a previous book being much exaggerated. Pendergast has more in common with the Count of Monte Cristo Count of Monte Cristo Edmond Dantes; wrongly imprisoned in the dungeons of Chateau D’If. . [Fr. Lit.: The Count of Monte Cristo, Magill I, 158–160] See : Imprisonment Count of Monte Cristo than with any modern-day detective: a multi-millionaire and multifaceted and multilingual scholar with an IQ well beyond genius, he is also the consummate master of disguises and technology. Here, he is pitted against a monster serial killer serial killer Forensic psychiatry A person who commits serial murders Prototypic SK White ♂ age 30; 97% are ♂; 80% are sociopaths. See Dahmer, Depraved heart murder, Ice Man. Cf Megan's law, Son of Sam law. : his brother Diogenes, everything Aloysius is, only hopelessly twisted into evil incarnate. Pendergast and his loyal sidekick, NYPD NYPD New York City Police Department (since 1845; New York City, NY, USA) NYPD New York Play Development lieutenant Vinny D'Agosta, team up to stop the maniac. Spearheading the official NYPD investigation is Vinny's competent, no-nonsense girlfriend. The problem is that all the evidence points to Aloysius. Exotic and Gothic subplots abound and entwine in unexpected ways; the setting is in and around New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and the Museum of Natural History. Brick's fully differentiated characterization and perfectly paced reading impressively heighten the contest. Francine Levitov, Attorney, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY |
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