Relic: The First Novel in the Pendergast Series

Description: "Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human. But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders. Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who--or what--is doing the killing. But can she do it in time to stop the massacre?"--Back cover.

Brief description: Lincoln Child is the author of Utopia and Death Match, as well as a number of New York Times bestselling thrillers with Douglas Preston. He lives with his wife and daughter in Morristown, New Jersey.

Review Quotes:

"Far above Crichton's Jurassic Park." --Booklist on Relic

"What might happen if a creature from Jurassic Park came to New York City." --The Chicago Tribune on Relic

"Wildly cool...Thrill hounds couldn't ask for a creepier environment...a thriller staged in the world's scariest building, with no room for the squeamish." --Kirkus Reviews on Relic

"Jaws takes Manhattan." --San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle on Relic

"A thriller that arrives with the kinetic energy of a meteor smacking the earth. " --Tampa Tribune and Times on Relic

"A high-concept, high-energy thriller . . . Builds to a superbly exciting climax, and then offers a final twist to boot." --Publishers Weekly on Relic