Fever Dream: Book summary and reviews of Fever Dream by Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston

Fever Dream Summary

At the old family manse in Louisiana, Special Agent Pendergast is putting to rest long-ignored possessions reminiscent of his wife Helen's tragic death, only to make a stunning - and dreadful - discovery. Helen had been mauled by an unusually large and vicious lion while they were big game hunting in Africa. But now, Pendergast learns that her rifle - her only protection from the beast - had been deliberately loaded with blanks. Who could have wanted Helen dead...and why?

With Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta's assistance, Pendergast embarks on a quest to uncover the mystery of his wife's murder. It is a journey that sends him deep into her past where he learns much that Helen herself had wished to keep hidden. Helen Pendergast had nursed a secret obsession with the famed naturalist-painter John James Audubon, in particular a long-lost painting of his known as the Black Frame.

As Pendergast probes more deeply into the riddle - the answer to which is revealed in a night of shocking violence, deep in the Louisiana bayou - he finds himself faced with an even greater question: who was the woman he married?

Fever Dream Reviews

"Starred Review. Their restraint in the book's early sections make the payoffs all the more compelling. " - Publishers Weekly

"Starred Review. Not to be missed by either newcomers or die-hard fans." - Library Journal

"Starred Review. This may be the best of the Pendergast novels, if for no other reason than we are permitted to see the man beneath the cold, steely exterior." - Booklist

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Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston Author Biography

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child have written more than a dozen novels together, including the bestselling novels The Relic, Mount Dragon, Reliquary, and Riptide. Lincoln Child is also the author of four other novels, including Utopia and Terminal Freeze . He was born in Westport, Connecticut, which he still calls his hometown (despite the fact that he left the place before he reached his first birthday and now only goes back for weekends).

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