Tuesday, December 28, 2010

What We're Reading: Edward

Fever Dream


by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child


FBI Agent Aloysius Pendergast is at the old family mansion in Louisiana for a required visit. While there he happens to open the cabinet that holds the guns from his last African safari. He notices that his wife's gun is dirty. While cleaning the gun, he realizes that the gun was filled with blanks. The blanks lead to her, Helen, death in the jaws of a red-maned lion. She was MURDERED! Within a day Pendergast has recruited NYPD Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta. They travel to Africa to pick up the twelve year old trail. Why was she killed? Helen was an epidemiologist with an interest in the paintings of John James Audubon. Was she looking for a famous lost painting? Was there a link between her vocation and her avocation? The two detectives fight their way through the swamps of Louisiana to find the answer.

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