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  1. Douglas Preston _ The Monster of Florence

    You can not stare evil in the face; it has no face. It has no body, no bones, no blood. Any attempt to describe it ends in glibness and self-delusion.
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  2. Douglas Preston _ Fever Dream

    Not in my swamp, with my alligators. -Pendergast
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  3. Douglas Preston _ City of Endless Night

    Mr. Ozmian," said Pendergast, in his quietest, smoothest voice, "we have bad news: your daughter is dead." The man looked as if he'd just been shot. He actually staggered and had to grip the side of a chair in order to keep himself upright. His face instantly drained of all color; his lips moved, but only an unintelligible whisper came out. He was like a dead man standing. He swayed again and D'Agosta took a step over to him, grasping his arm and shoulder. "Sir, let's sit down." The man nodded mutely and allowed himself to be steered into a chair. He felt as light as a feather in D'Agosta's grasp.
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  4. Douglas Preston _ Crimson Shore

    Pendergast moved with a feline grace, using the waxing moon as his only source of light
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  5. Douglas Preston _ Impact

    God give me chastity, but not right now.
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  6. Douglas Preston _ City of Endless Night

    The divide between the wealthy and everyone else is a false dichotomy-and one that obscures the real problem: there are many wicked people in the world, rich and poor. That is the real divide-between those who strive to do good, and those who strive only for themselves. Money magnifies the harm the wealthy can do, of course, allowing them to parade their vulgarity and malfeasance in full view of the rest of us.
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  7. Douglas Preston _ The Diogenes Trilogy:

    What was she doing working in a big museum, anyway, when she really should be tucked away in some semidetached house in the suburbs with a pack of squalling brats? Who was this husband she was allegedly so loyal to? Maybe the problem was she was rogering someone on the side already. Yes, that was probably it"
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  8. Douglas Preston _ Still Life With Crows

    And what was he like? Did he have three heads?" "If he did, two must have been successfully removed in infancy.
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  9. Douglas Preston _ The Lost City of the Monkey

    He was refreshingly, even alarmingly, direct
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  10. Douglas Preston _ The Lost City of the Monkey

    The people of Honduras don't have a clear cultural identity. We have to start learning more about our past in order to create a brighter future.
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  11. Douglas Preston _ The Lost City of the Monkey

    The British geographer Linda Newson produced a magisterial study of the demographic catastrophe in Honduras during the Spanish period, entitled The Cost of Conquest: Indian Decline in Honduras Under Spanish Rule.
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  12. Douglas Preston _ Still Life With Crows

    News of the murder had her all in a tizzy.
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