Cold Vengeance (novel)

Cold Vengeance
Hardcover edition
Author	Douglas Preston Lincoln Child
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Pendergast
Genre	Thriller
Publisher	Grand Central Publishing
Publication date	August 2, 2011
Media type	Print, e-book, audiobook
Pages	368
ISBN	0-446-55498-7
Preceded by	Fever Dream
Followed by	Two Graves

Cold Vengeance is a thriller novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. It was released on August 2, 2011 by Grand Central Publishing.^[1] This is the eleventh installment in the Special Agent Pendergast series and also the second novel in the Helen trilogy.^[2] The preceding novel is Fever Dream.

Plot

The conspiracy that murdered his wife is no more, but Pendergast will not rest until every last person involved is brought to justice. Chasing the final conspirator across the moors of Scotland, Pendergast stumbles into a far greater danger than he ever knew existed: the Covenant ("Der Bund" in German), a network of Nazis and Nazi sympathisers that have retreated from public view to influence events on a global scale.^[3]^[4]

Reception

By picking up the action right where Fever Dream ends off, bestsellers Preston and Child sacrifice some accessibility in their 11th thriller featuring unconventional FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast. Pendergast is still reeling from discovering that the death of his beloved wife, Helen, 12 years before from a lion attack was actually the result of a cold-blooded scheme. Desperate to learn the truth about the people behind her murder, the agent embarks on a perilous hunting expedition with her brother, Judson Esterhazy. While in the wilds of Scotland, Esterhazy tells Pendergast a surprising secret that undercuts all the agent's assumptions about what actually happened. His usual sidekick, NYPD Lt. Vincent D'Agosta, plays a more muted role than usual, but Corrie Swanson, who assisted Pendergast in Still Life with Crows, returns to help. The authors do a good job of showing the lengths Pendergast is willing to go to in his quest, but because the book reads much like the middle of a trilogy, first-timers would do well to start elsewhere in the series. (Aug.)

—Review by Publishers Weekly^[5]

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)

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