Rather it dives deeper into their histories, and showing sides we haven't seen before. This book doesn't really do anything new and remarkable with the characters. For me, this really fleshed out Pendergast, showing that even he had a breaking point. It shows a hastier, edgier, more impulsive Pendergast with D'Agosta as the more balanced character.
trying to solve a seemingly supernatural case, but this one is a bit different, and I think that is what makes it so good. I usually expect the story to revolve around Pendergast et al. As you have probably seen from the author's notes that this story reflects around the revelation that Agent Pendergast wife death was actually a murder and the ensuing investigation by Pendergast and D'Agosta. I thought that I had probably missed to much in the intervening books to enjoy "Fever Dream", but this has got to be best book of 2010 that I've read. Only (Relic, Reliquary, and Still Life with Crows). To be honest, I've not read most of the Pendergast books. Helen Pendergast had nursed a secret obsession with the famed naturalist-painter John James Audubon, in particular a long-lost painting of his known as the Black Frame.Īs Pendergast probes more deeply into the riddle - the answer to which is revealed in a night of shocking violence, deep in the Louisiana bayou - he finds himself faced with an even greater question: who was the woman he married?įinally, some of Agent Pendergast's History
It is a journey that sends him deep into her past where he learns much that Helen herself had wished to keep hidden. With Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta's assistance, Pendergast embarks on a quest to uncover the mystery of his wife's murder. Who could have wanted Helen dead.and why? But now, Pendergast learns that her rifle - her only protection from the beast - had been deliberately loaded with blanks. Helen had been mauled by an unusually large and vicious lion while they were big game hunting in Africa. At the old family manse in Louisiana, Special Agent Pendergast is putting to rest long-ignored possessions reminiscent of his wife Helen's tragic death, only to make a stunning - and dreadful - discovery.
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