Recently catching up on my Special Agent Pendergast books. Finished book 18, "Verses for the Dead." A bit of a bittersweet read since it was the last Pendergast book read by Rene Auberjonois (Constable Odo, Deep Space Nine) before his passing in 2019.
The Pendergast series is based around the rather unbelievable character Aloysius X. L. Pendergast. While the main character is burden to the suspension of disbelief, Messrs. Preston and Child spin such entertaining yarns that much can be forgiven. Pendergast is a multi-millionaire FBI agent (real world, that money would make him a huge national security risk) with nearly supernatural inductive and deductive abilities, but it's the messes he finds himself in and the author's ability to believably extract him from them, without utilizing du ex machina, is what makes the good reads.
The Pendergast series is based around the rather unbelievable character Aloysius X. L. Pendergast. While the main character is burden to the suspension of disbelief, Messrs. Preston and Child spin such entertaining yarns that much can be forgiven. Pendergast is a multi-millionaire FBI agent (real world, that money would make him a huge national security risk) with nearly supernatural inductive and deductive abilities, but it's the messes he finds himself in and the author's ability to believably extract him from them, without utilizing du ex machina, is what makes the good reads.
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