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Binding: Kindle Edition
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
Format: Kindle Book
Label: Grand Central Publishing
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: August 28, 2007
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Sales Rank: 1406
Studio: Grand Central Publishing
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Diogenes, Pendergast's brother, is dead. Constance, pregnant with his child, was his killer. Things are tough all over. Pendergast has taken Constance on a whirlwind tour hoping to give her a sense of the world that she was missing cooped up in the mansion on Riverside Drive. Now, they head to Tibet, where Pendergast did some of his most intensive martial arts and spiritual studies.
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Preston has continued his fast paced, horror novel style. I love being scared by his creatures and otherworldly threats. It is definitely a page turner and I would recommend it to any one who loves this genre as much as I do.
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A very strange chapter in the Pendergast story, The Wheel of Darkness has to do with a missing Tibetan relic that could bring about the end of the world. Pendergast and his ward Constance learn about the theft while at the Tibetan monastery to help Constance after Diogenes brought about the collapse of her delicate psyche in Book of the Dead. Pendergast believes the thief is taking part in the maiden voyage of a new super-luxury ocean liner, so he gets himself and Constance aboard and they set ... Read More
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I think that some of Preston and Child's fans are missing the whole point of the main character, Pendergast and the series framework.
The whole formula for these series is based on Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. It's simply an updated version of a Holmes-like character functioning in a modern world. Perndergast's physical description and mannerisms are so close to Sherlock's that if they wrote like some slam-bam thriller writers, they would say he was a Basil Rathbone lookalike.
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The Wheel of Darkness is the first Pendergast novel I've read. Thus, I approached the book with no preconceptions or comparisons to earlier novels in this series. So, how did The Wheel of Darkness resonate with this first-time reader? Surprisingly well.
There's little question that Preston and Child have created two wonderfully realized characters in Pendergast and Green. The idiosyncrasies that the authors have imbued on these characters make them both real and memorable. The strong ... Read More
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The best word I can think of to describe this book is LAME! I'm a big fan of Preston and Childs' previous works, but this one was a stinker. The other negative reviews mirror my sentiments exactly. Don't waste your time with this one, you'll end up disappointed.
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