Pendergast book 1 · 1995
Relic
Just before a huge exhibition opens at the New York Museum of Natural History, visitors and staff are found savagely murdered. FBI Special Agent Pendergast, museum researcher Margo Green and NYPD lieutenant Vincent D’Agosta hunt the killer.
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Book facts
- Series
- Pendergast, book 1 of 22
- Published
- 1995
- Setting
- Set in New York
- Characters charted
- 4
- Chart confidence
- High
Who is in Relic
4 recurring or key characters from Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child’s chart. Introduces Aloysius Pendergast, Vincent D'Agosta, Margo Green and Bill Smithback.
Lead 2
- Aloysius PendergastFirst appearanceEnigmatic FBI special agent from New Orleans
- Margo GreenFirst appearanceMuseum researcher, later an anthropologist
Major 2
- Vincent D'AgostaFirst appearanceNYPD lieutenant and Pendergast's friend
- Bill SmithbackFirst appearanceJournalist
Also featuring these characters
Other Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child books that share the most characters with Relic.
- The Book of the Dead2006 · Pendergast · 4 shared charactersBuy on Amazon
- Brimstone2004 · Pendergast · 3 shared charactersBuy on Amazon
- Dance of Death2005 · Pendergast · 3 shared charactersBuy on Amazon
- Cemetery Dance2009 · Pendergast · 3 shared charactersBuy on Amazon