The trail soon leads deep underground, where they will face the awakening of a slumbering nightmare. Margo must once again team up with police lieutenant D'Agosta and FBI agent Pendergast, as well as the brilliant Dr. When two grotesquely deformed skeletons are found deep in the mud off the Manhattan shoreline, museum curator Margo Green is called in to aid the investigation.

There lies the ultimate secret of the Museum Beast. It was developed by Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy. Hidden beneath Manhattan is a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by those who walk the streets above. The Relic was based on the horror novel by Douglas Preston, an ex-journalist and former public relations director for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and Lincoln Child (though it omits their major character, FBI agent Pendergast). And that was to follow the Museum Beast itself.

As a horror novel and techno-thriller, it comments on the possibilities inherent in genetic manipulation, and is critical of museums and their role both in society and in the scientific community. That was when Preston and Child realized there was only one solution. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child are the co-authors of the Pendergast series of thrillers, including such bestselling titles as Fever Dream, The Book of the Dead, The Wheel of Darkness, and Relic, which became a number one box office hit movie. Relic is a 1995 novel by American authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, and the first in the Special Agent Pendergast series. BY DOUGLAS PRESTON AND LINCOLN CHILD Relico Mount Dragon Reliquary Riptide Thunderhead The Ice Limit The Cabinet of Curiosities Still Life with Crows. What setting could top the New York Museum of Natural History?

How to write a sequel that could follow Relic, one of the most successful techno-thrillers ever written? That was the problem facing Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child when they agreed to write Reliquary.

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