The trail soon leads deep underground, where they will face the awakening of a slumbering nightmare. Margo must once again team up with police lieutenant D'Agosta and FBI agent Pendergast, as well as the brilliant Dr. When two grotesquely deformed skeletons are found deep in the mud off the Manhattan shoreline, museum curator Margo Green is called in to aid the investigation. rating 91,919 Ratings Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. There lies the ultimate secret of the Museum Beast. Relic (Pendergast, 1) by Douglas Preston 4.04 avg.

Hidden beneath Manhattan is a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by those who walk the streets above. And that was to follow the Museum Beast itself. Preston and Child’s Relic and The Cabinet of Curiosities were chosen by readers in a National Public Radio poll as being among the one hundred greatest thrillers ever written, and Relic was made into a number-one box. That was when Preston and Child realized there was only one solution. The thrillers of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child stand head and shoulders above their rivals (Publishers Weekly). What setting could top the New York Museum of Natural History? How to write a sequel that could follow Relic, one of the most successful techno-thrillers ever written? That was the problem facing Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child when they agreed to write Reliquary.

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