Brimstone (Preston and Child novel)

This article is about the novel. For other uses, see Brimstone (disambiguation).

Brimstone

Author	Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Diogenes Trilogy, Aloysius Pendergast
Genre	Suspense
Publisher	Warner Books
Publication date	August 3, 2004
Media type	Print, e-book, audiobook
Pages	497 pp. (Hardcover)
ISBN	0-446-53143-X
OCLC	54279996
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 22
LC Class	PS3566.R3982 B75 2004
Preceded by	Still Life with Crows
Followed by	Dance of Death

Brimstone is a thriller novel written by American authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, and published on August 3, 2004 by Warner Books. This is the fifth installment in the Special Agent Pendergast series and the first novel in the Diogenes trilogy that also includes Dance of Death (2005) and The Book of the Dead (2006).^[1]

Plot summary

FBI Special Agent Aloysius X.L. Pendergast and Sergeant Vincent D'Agosta, now working for the Southampton Police Department, investigate a series of unusual deaths—deaths that appear to be the work of Lucifer in return for pacts entered in with him by his victims.^[2] Their investigation takes them from the New York City area, site of the first two deaths, to Florence, Italy where they uncover the motive and method of the killers behind the strange and gruesome deaths. During the course of unraveling the mystery, the truth behind a priceless, missing Stradivarius violin is revealed and a potentially apocalyptic riot with Messianic Christians is averted. Pendergast also reveals details of his insane brother Diogenes, whom he believes is planning something horrible.

References to other literary works

The entombing of Pendergast in the catacombs under Fosco's home bears a deliberate literary allusion to "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe.^[3]
An alias D'Agosta uses on the telephone, Jack Torrance, is the name of the main character in The Shining, a novel by Stephen King.
The character of Count Fosco is a tribute to the classic character of the same name, a villain in Wilkie Collins's novel The Woman in White.

References

External links

Works by Douglas Preston and/or Lincoln Child

Agent Pendergast series

Relic (1995)
Reliquary (1997)
The Cabinet of Curiosities (2002)
Still Life with Crows (2003)
Brimstone (2004)
Dance of Death (2005)
The Book of the Dead (2006)
The Wheel of Darkness (2007)
Cemetery Dance (2009)
Fever Dream (2010)
Cold Vengeance (2011)
Two Graves (2012)
White Fire (2013)
Blue Labyrinth (2014)
Crimson Shore (2015)

Gideon Crew series

Gideon's Sword (2011)
Gideon's Corpse (2012)
The Lost Island (2014)
Beyond the Ice Limit (2016)

Other novels

Mount Dragon (1996)
Riptide (1998)
Thunderhead (1999)
The Ice Limit (2000)

Characters

Douglas Preston

Tom Broadbent series	The Codex (2004) Tyrannosaur Canyon (2005)

Wyman Ford series	Tyrannosaur Canyon (2005) Blasphemy (2008) Impact (2010) The Kraken Project (2014)

Other novels	Jennie (1994)

Other works	The Monster of Florence (2008, with Mario Spezi)

Characters	Wyman Ford

Lincoln Child

Jeremy Logan series	Deep Storm (2007) Terminal Freeze (2009) The Third Gate (2012) The Forgotten Room (2015)

Other novels	Utopia (2002) Death Match (2004)

Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White

Films	The Woman in White (1912) The Woman in White (1929) Crimes at the Dark House (1940) The Woman in White (1948)

TV	The Woman in White (1966 TV series) The Woman in White (1997 TV series)

Other	The Woman in White (2004 musical)

Related	Brimstone

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