Bill Smithback is mentioned, but not seen on stage, being on an extended honeymoon with his new bride, Nora Kelly. Along for the ride in one respect or another are Sergeant (no longer Lieutenant) D'Agosta, Wren, Constance Greene (who had rather odd cameos in CABINET OF CURIOSITIES and STILL LIFE WITH CROWS), and the much-reviled Post reporter, Bryce Harriman. Special Agent Pendergast returns once again, on what few would deny to be his most dangerous mission to date. Comforting to know that our characters have such excellent taste in books. One of the characters is seen reading a thriller entitled Utopia. These include Wren and a certain someone else whose identity is not yet known, but who is ultimately identified in BRIMSTONE as one Constance Greene. In addition, there are several indirect references to CABINET OF CURIOSITIES, and to events common to both books. Also, Mime (from MOUNT DRAGON) plays a small but pivotal role. Young Corrie Swanson is found to be reading a very thrilling novel entitled Beyond the Ice Limit. Special Agent Pendergast returns for his fourth appearance in the novels of Preston-Child: this time in the small (very small) town of Medicine Creek, Kansas, where the corn is tall and the suspicion is mutual, thank you very much. let us know what we've missed!Īt the Park's "pre-game show," reference is made to the CEO of GeneDyne (MOUNT DRAGON). And what are we to make of that ruby-colored meteorite on page 305? Or the license plate of Smithback's rented car, ELI-7734? No doubt there are others. We also learn that Margo Green (RELIC, RELIQUARY) is now working at GeneDyne (MOUNT DRAGON) and that Vincent D'Agosta is living in Canada, writing police procedurals under the pen name Campell Dirk. Bryce Harriman (RELIQUARY), Smithback's nemesis, makes a triumphant return. In addition, Palmer Lloyd (THE ICE LIMIT) is referred to as a would-be employer of Nora Kelly's, and the reason she originally came east from Santa Fe to New York. The ship's doctor, Patrick Brambell, was obliquely identified as the brother of the medical examiner in RELIQUARY.ĬoC (as readers have started to call it) is positively infested with correlations! To begin with, it marks the return of Agent Pendergast (RELIC, RELIQUARY), who teams up with both Nora Kelly (THUNDERHEAD) and Bill Smithback (RELIC, RELIQUARY, THUNDERHEAD). Kerry Wopner, the obnoxious systems wiz, actually made his first appearance in the unfinished Preston-Child novel, Hex, which for a long time was available for reading in the now-defunct 'web-only fiction' pages of this site.īill Smithback, of RELIC and RELIQUARY, came along on the expedition to Quivira. Among various new characters are Laura Hayward of the NYPD and Simon Brambell, a medical examiner. All the major characters-Agent Pendergast, Margo Green, Smithback, D'Agosta, Frock-return. Thanks to all those who have emailed us with suggestions!Ī distant correlation: the heroine of this book, Susana Cabeza de Vaca, is a direct descendant of the explorer who searched for the lost city of Quivira, as related in THUNDERHEAD.Īs a sequel to RELIC, there are numerous correlations. If we've missed anything, please let us know. Here's a list of the cross-correlations to date. In some ways, our most recent book, THE CABINET OF CURIOSITIES, has Going on the expedition, and meeting Nora Kelly, changed his life And we both liked Smithback and wanted to see him But it gave us a 'pre-rolled' character, so to speak: somebody we already Readers of RELIC and RELIQUARY would know who he was-other Nudges to our readers, without obvious allusions to the fact that he'd already featured in We'd just bring him onstage without winks or Adding Smithback to the cast of THUNDERHEAD NothingĬomprehensive, just tangential, so to speak. Subtle way-the various worlds of our books into some kind of convergence. ![]() "I'd been intrigued by the idea of trying to bring-in a ![]() The expedition could use a journalist.' And I replied, 'No, not just a To Doug, 'What if we send Bill Smithback along on the dig?' He said, 'Yeah, that's good, Initially, we just added a nonentity, a youngĭigger who was scheduled for an early demise. To be added to the group we were forming. "When we were beginning work on THUNDERHEAD, and wereįleshing out a team for the expedition to Quivira, we realized that somebody else needed But we've nevertheless grown very attached to "Ever since RELIQUARY, we've resisted the temptation to do Growing number of ways in which the worlds of the Preston-Child novels overlap. Means that, as the Preston-Child novels have developed, characters and situations from oneīook or books have begun appearing in others.
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