- Hardcover: 497 pages
- Publisher: Warner Books (27 Aug 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 044653143X
- ISBN-13: 978-0446531436
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.5 x 4.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 543,626 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Art critic Jeremy Grove is found dead, his face frozen in a mask of terror. His body temperature is grotesquely high; he is discovered in a room barricaded from the inside; the smell of brimstone is everywhere...and the unmistakable imprint of a claw is burned into the wall. As more bodies are discovered - their only connection the bizarre but identical manner of death-the world begins to wonder if the Devil has, in fact, come to collect his due. Teaming with Police Officer Vincent D'Agosta (The Relic), Agent Pendergast is determined to solve this case that appears to defy everything except supernatural logic. Their investigation takes them from the luxury estates of Long Island to the crumbling, legend-shrouded castles of the Italian countryside, where Pendergast faces the most treacherous and dangerous adversary of his career.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Understanding the Human Factor,
This review is from: Brimstone (Paperback)
Intrigue from page one, this novel gives a finite view of the modus operandii of both police work and scientific research, at times rolled into one.A story which demands your attention, permitting no gap to be experienced unless the flow of the story is interrupted ; you are acheing to know what happens next, not just in the main plot, but the sub-plots, the characters, the scenes and the implications on time present and times to come. A book at bed-time? Clearly not, as your mind is left too excited to fall asleep !
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good but far from a Preston/Child classic,
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This review is from: Brimstone (Paperback)
After reading Thunderhead, Cabinet of Curiosities and Still Life With Crows, I was really looking forward to reading Brimstone and i thoroughly enjoyed it. That said, it's not anywhere near as good as those previous novels.
Vincent D'agosta returns to help agent Pendergast investigate a series of unusual deaths that appear to be the work of Lucifer, where the victims seem to have traded their soul's for fortune and glory. The story is interesting and takes a few unexpected turns while Pendergast has his usual unpredictability and strange ways of understanding and solving problems. In this book the writers use science as well as the usual mystery to keep you guessing. This is the first of the 'Diogenes' trilogy and the series does get better and better, 3 stars for this.
2.0 out of 5 stars
USED TO WRITE MUCH BETTER THAN THIS. NOT THEIR BEST.,
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This review is from: Brimstone (Preston, Douglas) (Hardcover)
Preston & Child have put out some memorable books in the past (Relic, Reliquary, IceLimit were all excellent!). However, they managed to fail miserably in their last 3 books - even though they had a very interesting character, Pendergast, to work with.
BRIMSTONE only barely managed to hold my interest: the plot was stretched-out (the price of sequelization), the villains were obvious and all style, no substance. The side stories were but page-stuffing, they added nothing to the story or the characters' development - whereas, (the partial) catharsis came in the most predictable way possible!! This is another example of a story diluted to blandness, in order to milk the cash-cow until it bleeds...Disappointed. Again.
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