Brimstone
- Authors: Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston
- Series: Book 5 in the Agent Pendergast series
- Genres: Thriller
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- Rating: 4.6 based on 5,265 reviews
- Release Date: August 3, 2004
- Print length: 497 pages (Hardcover)
About the book
Agent Pendergast makes his return in a new suspense thriller by bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
Art critic Jeremy Grove is discovered dead, with a look of terror frozen on his face. His body temperature is abnormally high, found in a room barricaded from the inside, with the smell of brimstone lingering in the air, and a claw mark burned into the wall. As more bodies are found with the same strange cause of death, the world begins to question if the Devil has truly come to claim his victims. Partnering with Police Officer Vincent D'Agosta from The Relic, Agent Pendergast is determined to solve this case that seems to defy all rational explanation. Their investigation leads them from the opulent estates of Long Island to the ancient castles of Italy, where Pendergast faces his most dangerous foe yet.
Preston and Child's previous hardcover, Still Life with Crows, has almost 80,000 copies in print and was a New York Times bestseller. It will be released in Warner mass market in July 2004.
The main character of BRIMSTONE, Agent Pendergast, was first introduced in The Relic, a New York Times bestseller with over 910,000 paperback copies sold and adapted into a Paramount movie.
Both The Cabinet of Curiosities and The Ice Limit also achieved bestseller status on various lists, including the New York Times extended list and USA TODAY list, with the former becoming a bestseller in Los Angeles Times and Publishers Weekly as well.
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