Since the second volume "Cold Vengeance" that I have read before attacking it, I had somewhat neglected the inspector Aloysius Pendergast. I found with "Hell Descent" an atmosphere and an old friend I had left yesterday. These books by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child are really impossible to let go once back inside. This third installment of the trilogy "Hélène", the wife of Pendergast, always reserves many surprises and this almost around every page. Everything starts six hours after the kidnapping of the wife of Aloysius and the shooting that killed five people in Central Park with his brother Judson Esterhazy. Vincent D'Agosta went to the emergency Lenox Hill Hospital to visit Pendergast. The latter yells at the doctor and decide on his own to leave the clinic. He begins to investigate and quickly found the trail of the kidnappers who travel to Mexico. I say no more but a delirious adventure begins with the Nazis. This book recounts the adventure of parallel psychiatrist John Felder seeking evidence that Constance Greene, Pendergast's ward is born around 1870 and thus 140 years. We also follow the story of Corrie Swanson (see "The croaking of the night") trying to clear his father of a holdup. In short, a third volume full of twists and introduced us to some new characters doubtless important in future adventures. For fans, it's not worth the counselor, for others it's to discover. What I have never understood is why the adventures of Aloysius Pendergast are not adapted to film !!! Instead of remake remake, these novels of Preston and Child are a real gold mine for a director. Finally one day maybe !!! Adanson Marco.
