Brimstone (novel)

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name = Brimstone
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author = Douglas Preston,
Lincoln Child
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country = United States
language = English
series = Diogenes Trilogy
genre = Suspense
publisher = Warner Books
release_date = 2004
media_type = Hardcover,
Paperback
pages = 497 (Hardcover)
isbn = ISBN 0446576972
preceded_by = Still Life with Crows
followed_by = Dance of Death

"Brimstone" is a novel written by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, published in 2004. It is the first novel in the trilogy that includes "Dance of Death" (2005) and "The Book of the Dead" (2006).

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. 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.

References to other literary works

*The trapping of Pendergast in the catacombs under Fosco's home bears obvious literary allusion to "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe.
*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."

External links

* [http://www.prestonchild.com/brimstone/brimstone.htm "Brimstone" page from Preston & Child's official web site]
* [http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews2/0446612758.asp Review on Bookreporter.com]
* [http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews2/0446612758-excerpt.asp Excerpt]