"What?", you say. "Didn't she already put an entry about this book?" No, I didn't. Read carefully. It's a different one. Try having two Pendergast novels and not reading them back to back. It's impossible. I've tried. It can't be done.
In this one, Pendergast finds out that his wife (wife we had never heard of) didn't die in a tragic accident while hunting lions, because the weapon she was using was loaded with blanks. She was murdered, and, even though it was twelve years ago and the trail is as cold as it gets, Pendergast decides to hunt down her killer and do her justice the Pendergast way: killing them.
I liked this book better than the last one, I think, just because the science fiction bit was left to a minimum and the story was almost believable (avian flu that turns you into a brilliant mind before driving you crazy and killing you? Okay). D'Agosta is only present at the beginning of the story and then his spot is taken by his brilliant girlfriend, Laura Hayward, who doesn't approve of Pendergast but ends up liking his style a little too much. There are shootings, there are life threatening situations and there is treason. And a 140 year-old woman who looks 23 and decides to throw her baby in the Atlantic ocean while on a cruise.
I'm curious to see how the Southern readers take to this book, because their inhabitants are depicted as a bunch red neck, illiterate animals who can't tell right from wrong and could serially rape a woman without blinking. Apart from that, Louisiana is depicted as the beautiful state it is, and the book only raises more questions about the Pendergast family and the mysterious fire that destroyed the family mansion. I think we still haven't heard all there is to hear about Aloysious and his brother Diogenes, although this last one has been dead for a few books now. I wouldn't be surprised to find out the roles of good and evil were reversed in the past.
A summer without Pendergast novels. How am I going to cope?
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