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FBI Special Agent Pendergast is taking a break from work to take Constance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping to give her closure and a sense of the world that she's missed. They head to Tibet, where Pendergast intensively trained in martial arts and spiritual studies. At a remote monastery, they learn that a rare and dangerous artifact the monks have been guarding for generations has been mysteriously stolen. As a favor, Pendergast agrees to track and recover the relic. A twisting trail of bloodshed leads Pendergast and Constance to the maiden voyage of the Britannia, the world's largest and most luxurious ocean liner---and to an Atlantic crossing fraught with terror. Top to learn more
FBI Special Agent Pendergast is taking a break from work to take Constance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping to give her closure and a sense of the world that she's missed. They head to Tibet, where Pendergast intensively trained in martial arts and spiritual studies. At a remote monastery, they learn that a rare and dangerous artifact the monks have been guarding for generations has been mysteriously stolen. As a favor, Pendergast agrees to track and recover the relic. A twisting trail of bloodshed leads Pendergast and Constance to the maiden voyage of the
Britannia, the world's largest and most luxurious ocean liner---and to an Atlantic crossing fraught with terror.
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Smoke on the Water
For pure escapist adventure fiction with serial cliffhangers, and enough science and history to add, if not feasibility, at least a touch of credibility, it doesn't get much better than Preston and Childs. And for a unique and engaging protagonist, it doesn't get much better than Aloysius Pendergast, the eclectic and urbane the FBI special agent who seems to do just about everything except work on cases for the FBI. Notwithstanding, I found this talented duo a bit off their game in "The Wheel of Darkness", a mildly interesting but less inspiring mystery than some of the Preston/Child classics like "Relic" or "Cabinet of Curiosities". To retrieve the mysterious "Agozyen", an ancient Eastern version of Pandora's box, the globetrotting Pendergast treks from a remote Tibetan monastery to a trip across the ocean on the Britannia, a mammoth-sized luxury ocean liner on her maiden trans-Atlantic voyage. Tagging along while helping to drag "Darkness" to a substandard effort is...
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September 8, 2007
(Los Altos Hills, CA United States) | Helpful Votes: 69 | Rating: 3
Disappointing
I've been an Preston/Child fan for many years, ever since I picked a copy of "The Relic" up off my mom's coffee table and started thumbing through it. Since that time, the books have gotten better and better, and I was both thrilled and saddened when the series seemingly came to a resounding and satisfying ending in "The Book of the Dead". Imagine my joy when I came across "The Wheel of Darkness" while on vacation. I can't say it's a terrible book, it's not. It's just not as good as any of it's predecessors. The plot feels rushed with minimal setup and little follow-through, and while there is a suspension of disbelief required in any work of fiction (especially fiction dealing with themes of the occult)"Wheel" asks too much of the reader. While the majority of the Pendergast series deals with events and murders that seem supernatural but are ultimately revealed to be merely bizarre, "Wheel" asks us to believe in malevolent "thought...
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October 11, 2007
(St. Louis, MO United States) | Helpful Votes: 28 | Rating: 3
Short and Unremarkable
I've been eagerly awaiting the latest Preston/Child novel, but once again I was disappointed. Pendergast was at his best in "Cabinet of Curiosities" (perhaps my favorite Preston/Child book), but my interest in him has declined with each additional book. This story breaks from past Preston/Child tales in that there is no gruesome and puzzling murder in the opening scene. Instead, Pendergast and his ward Constance travel to a Tibetan monestary for some meditation and study. The pacing is rather slow and I had to force myself to continue reading, which is unusual for a Preston/Child story. A mysterious artifact was recently stolen from the monestary, which provides a bit of intrigue and a mission for Pendergast. But then the chase leads to an ocean liner at which point the story felt like an episode of "Murder She Wrote" and I couldn't help but picture Angela Lansbury as Pendergast. Pendergast breaks a card counting scheme in the casino, but not much...
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September 5, 2007
(Arlington, VA USA) | Helpful Votes: 57 | Rating: 3
