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Title: The Wheel of Darkness (Hardcover) Publishers price: 9.99 GBP Author: by Douglas Preston (Author), Lincoln Child (Author) Douglas Preston is a regular contributor to the New Yorker. Lincoln Child is a former book editor at St. Martin's Press and has published numerous short-story anthologies. Together they are the co-authors of a series of bestselling novels, including the Agent Pendergast adventures. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child are the co-authors of a string of bestselling suspense novels, including the Agent Pendergast adventures. Their solo careers also continue to flourish. Douglas Preston live on the coast of Maine, while Lincoln Child lives in New Jersey. Publisher: Orion; Size: 23.6 x 16 x 4 cm Comments: New, Gift Quality, 400 pages,  750g,  In stock, but some time imperfect condition due to storage - Sent fast from Irish booksellers.  Description:  Perched like a black crow on a crag in the most hostile depths of the Himalayas stands a monastery. For a thousand years the monks have kept guard. Now their sanctum has been violated, the secret carried off. After a millennium of hiding from the world, the guardians of the treasure will have to turn to an outsider for help. Luckily Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast is no stranger. Having trained body and mind in Tibet, he knows the land well. But neither he nor his ward, Constance, are prepared for the truth about what the monks have been protecting. The pursuit of the stolen artefact takes Pendergast and Constance far from the snowy wastes, to where the largest-ever ocean liner is preparing for her maiden voyage. As Pendergast and Constance board, they know they are joined by a cargo of secrets and murderers. As the ship slips into the night, it becomes a deadly race to recover the secret of the monks, or blackness to threaten to fall not just over the ship, but the wider world... A stunning dance of death and mystery, THE WHEEL OF DARKNESS takes the most unusual investigator around on his most thrilling case yet... 　 Fun, if a little far fetched,  By  Glaucon "wadda" (UK)   This review is from: The Wheel of Darkness (Hardcover) I have a soft spot for Pendergast (the FBI agent hero of the book) and his semi-mystical slant on life and detection. He is a great character if one suspends disbelief at the range and breadth of his extraordinay talents, from card counting to fine art, from physical prowess to lock-picking. His side-kick, Constance, is less enthralling, but who knows may develop in future titles. This novel at times has the feel of a blockbuster disaster movie, but it rattles along quite nicely, as do all P&C novels. A diverting way to spend a wet afternoon or two.