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The dramatic second novel in a three-book story arc starring enigmatic FBI Agent Pendergast on his search for his long-lost wife, Helen.
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Devastated by the discovery that his wife, Helen, was murdered, Special Agent Pendergast must have retribution. But revenge is not simple. As he stalks his wife's betrayers - a chase that takes him from the wild moors of Scotland to the bustling streets of New York City and the darkest bayous of Louisiana - he is also forced to dig further into Helen's past. And he is stunned to learn that Helen may have been a collaborator in her own murder. Peeling back the layers of deception, Pendergast realizes that the conspiracy is deeper, goes back generations, and is more monstrous than he could have ever imagined - and everything he's believed, everything he's trusted, everything he's understood . . . may be a horrific lie.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The previous Pendergast - Fever Dream - was taut, exciting with a highly original plot. A real pleasure. This sequel was none of those - a disappointment. It rambles, it is over padded and the plot is unoriginal, weak and unresolved. Secret Nazi organisations have already been so overdone. The `ending' was a great let down - I felt conned. If the authors want readers to buy further Pendergast novels this sequel leading on to yet another sequel is not the way to go.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The Agent Pendergast series have been consistently good and sometimes even brilliant until now. Pendergast is a great character, but Cold Vengeance is trite and predictable (made me think of the 39 steps) in its main plot and then ends with a series of totally unbelievable events: the two arch enemies become allies and Pendergast's wife appears in a Naked Gun-like spoof ending (dragged off like a sponge doll by the bad guys). This is a shame, when one considers these authors have produced the likes of Reliquary, Still Life With Crows and Brimstone.I only hope the sequel makes up for this piece of filler and all can be forgiven. If you are going to read the Pendergast novels for the first time you definitely need to start earlier with Relic and Reliquary. By the time you get to this one, you will be ready to forgive.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Yesterday, after receiving the book at lunch-time, I had mentally resolved that it would have to be left for the weekend reading binge. Alas, like so many other resolutions, this one also begged to be broken, as the rains intensified outside and the night became eery. I began this novel at around 22-00 hrs , and by 02-00 hrs today morning, I was through. This "proves" that this book is a "read-until-it's-over" once you begin it, but if you wish to compare it with Preston-Child's golden standard set in Relic or Thunderhead, the book falls short by the following measures: -
1) Agent Pendergast is at his best when he is accompanied by lesser mortals. Here, allowing him to act solo almost through-out the book, the authors' have over-exposed him.
2) The whole idea of Nazi criminals conducting their sadistic experiments even after the 2nd World War, getting shelter in Latin America, and one of their offspring going against them has been done to death by so many thriller writers and conspiracy theorists, that their presence in a Pendergast adventure is not enjoyable any more.
3) Pendergast's family has given us several books in the series and in the process have made this unbelievably powerful mystery-horror series a long-running saga resembling television serials, and now Helen's family also appears to take us along the familiar tread. Why can't the authors forget about this stuff and give us another genuine creepy thriller, bereft of all this ridiculous conspiracy theories and yet rich on adventure & thrill?
However, even after putting down all this in writing, I would definitely place an order for the last book in the so-called Helen-trilogy, since this one has, again, ended on a cliff-hanger!
1) Agent Pendergast is at his best when he is accompanied by lesser mortals. Here, allowing him to act solo almost through-out the book, the authors' have over-exposed him.
2) The whole idea of Nazi criminals conducting their sadistic experiments even after the 2nd World War, getting shelter in Latin America, and one of their offspring going against them has been done to death by so many thriller writers and conspiracy theorists, that their presence in a Pendergast adventure is not enjoyable any more.
3) Pendergast's family has given us several books in the series and in the process have made this unbelievably powerful mystery-horror series a long-running saga resembling television serials, and now Helen's family also appears to take us along the familiar tread. Why can't the authors forget about this stuff and give us another genuine creepy thriller, bereft of all this ridiculous conspiracy theories and yet rich on adventure & thrill?
However, even after putting down all this in writing, I would definitely place an order for the last book in the so-called Helen-trilogy, since this one has, again, ended on a cliff-hanger!
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Classic Prendergast.
This book just fizzes from one page to the next. From the wilds of Scotland, to the deep south and back to New York. Impossible to second guess the next twist. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Diogenes
Cold Vengeance rip off
Having read Fever Dream, I really had no choice but to pre order Cold Vengeance so I could learn how Agent P was going to get out of this one. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Julian L. Halls
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