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Printing Date: July 01, 2003
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In Medicine Creek, Kansas, an old-fashioned small town where nothing ever changes, the community is terrified after a series of grisly murders takes place. Even more alarming, the bodies are displayed in bizarre tableaus. FBI Agent Pendergast arrives from New Orleans to investigate.
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This is one of their best books. I enjoyed it alot and I highly recommend it.
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I did like this book and tried to figure out the puzzle as I read. I wish the book would have been longer with more mystery that the authors are known for, but I still could not put it down. I love their work,and buy all their books.
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Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston are masters of bizarre creepy suspense, which they somehow make so believable that these books --you can't put them down. Here we have Special Agent Pendergast on vacation in a cornfield, being himself. Why do I love this remote, troubled, guy, himself so mysterious? Because we like that sort of person and want to really understand him and be liked by him. I have now read all of these novels except Dance of Death and then I will have the complete picture. I can only hope for more.
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A dead body gruesomely arranged in a corn field at the edge of a very small Kansas town? This is exactly the right case to solve for FBI Special Agent Pendergast. Alone and on his own initiative he shows up in this small corn-growing town in die middle of nowhere to investigate. Could the recent killings really be linked to a 19th-century massacre of a band of outlaws by Indians in the same area? Soon Pendergast finds himself under pressure to solve the riddle before the death toll keeps piling up any further...
From previous Preston/Child books most reader will remember Pendergast as one of the most charismatic and also strange characters in a long time. This time he teams up with Corrie Swanson, a rebellious local teenage girl hired as his driver and guide. As you can imagine not everybody is in favor of Pendergast. The local cops don't like him, nor do the local politicians. And sometimes even the reader is not 100% sure about him. ;-)
The story features interesting and strange characters, some really gruesome killings and scenarios as well as lot of mystery from past and present. Exactly what books from Preston/Child are well established and liked for.
However there is at least one bigger deviation to former books. This time not only Pendergast finds the key to the solution. Even if he withholds information (as usual) from his helper, the police and also from the reader, nevertheless 3 different parties understand where they have to search for the perpetrator. This search leads to an extremely long showdown which is about a third of the book long! Quite an unusual writing style for Preston/Child.
Even if the identity of the villain as well as the final solution might be absurd to some and even ridiculous to other readers, the story and its outcome are not as far fetched as "Cabinet of Curiosities". (But there are some references that former book in this story.)
The only really stupid incident here is Pendergast's mental journey (a form of mental concentration as a combination of memory palace and an ancient form of meditation) in order to understand the mystery of the past and its link to the present. Leaving your body mentally and traveling through time?! Gimme a break!
Overall it is a conclusive story with a far better and more satisfying solution in comparison to "Cabinet of Curiosities". The book is entertaining and far from boring but nothing that will keep you glued to your seat (partly due to the very long showdown). Other books from Preston/Child are better. I would recommend reading "The Relic", "Reliquary" and "Riptide" (first).
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This is one of the best mysteries I ever read. The character development is outstanding and the descriptions of Pendergast are just unreal. He is such a "dynamo" of a hero and has such interesting, fascinating things about him that he is just irresistable. I loved this book and have read hundreds of mysteries......this is definitely up in the top 10. Loved it and I do mean loved it.
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