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Original Title:	Relic
ISBN:	0765354942 (ISBN13: 9780765354945)
Edition Language:	English URL http://us.macmillan.com/relic/DouglasPreston
Series:	Pendergast #1
Characters:	Aloysius X.L. Pendergast, Margo Green, William Smithback, Dr. Whitney C. Frock, George Moriarty, Lavinia Rickman, Spencer Coffey, Gregory Kawakita, Vincent D'Agosta
Setting:	New York State(United States) New York City, New York(United States)

Relic (Pendergast #1) Paperback | Pages: 480 pages

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Title	:	Relic (Pendergast #1)
Author	:	Douglas Preston
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 480 pages
Published	:	August 1st 2005 by Tor Books (first published 1995)
Categories	:	Horror. Thriller. Mystery. Fiction. Science Fiction. Mystery Thriller. Suspense

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Just 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?

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He who walks on all fours.....Upper XingúSept. 17, 1987 Montague, Ive decided to send Carlos back with the last crate and go on alone in search of Crocker. Carlos is trustworthy, and I cant risk losing the crate should anything happen to me. Take note of the shamans rattle and other ritual objects. They seem unique. But the figurine Ive enclosed, which we found in a deserted hut at this site, is the proof Ive been looking for. Note the exaggerated claws, the reptilian attributes, the hints at

3.5 stars.Relic marks a promising start in my attempt to read more crimes/mysteries/thrillers aside from Dan Browns Robert Langdon books. This novel has all the necessary ingredients to satisfy the requirements of a page-turning thriller. Set in the massive New York Museum of Natural History, the element of horror around the gruesome and brutal killings has just the right atmospheric tone to make the narrative creepy enough without being too cheesy. The story started with two separate Prologues

**re-read** (third time) CD special S/L edition. My first Preson/Child novel--the one that started it all. Still a favorite after all these years!

MINI REVIEW: A chilling thriller that takes place mostly in a colossal museum in NYC. Don't be fooled if you hate museums. It's still very interesting with a combination of horror, sleuthing and melodrama. Characters are mostly vivid and while one could argue several plot points were predictable they were still satisfying. BTW, the movie is a terribly poor representation of the book. CHARACTERS/DIALOGUE: A minus; STORY/PLOT POINTS: A minus to A; CREEPINESS/HORROR: B plus; OVERALL GRADE: A minus

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

Sometimes I really want a hot dog.I dont care that its filled with crunchy bits of pig hoofs or that its encased in a horses transverse colon or even that it will provide enough sodium to last me for the next 75 years. I just want to bite into that thick, juicy tube o meat and let the uniquely succulent flavor of indulgence course through my veins even as it drips greasy trails of superfluous yumminess down my chin. Thats kind of how I feel about thrillers. I dont read them all the time, but

Relic is a perfect example of the vast sea of things that the human mind doesn't know, and of fear and panic over a monster unseen. Gripping, violent and frightening, this book is disturbing and unsettling but very well-written.