[airedale]

Pendargast is such a neat character. So is his brother, Diogenes. You need them both for most of the following books. Diogenes is Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast's Moriarity. Do you think Pendergast is actually dead or will he be back? The characters in The Codex are back in Tyrannosaurus Canyon so they may have gone as far as they can with the prior cast of characters. Smithback of course being the Douglas Preston character (G)

BTW have you noticed their love of the word preternatural? It's in every one of their jointly written books except Tyrannosaurs Canyon at least once.

[Alouette]

Do you think Pendergast is actually dead or will he be back?

He was not dead at the end of Dance of Death which I think is the most recent of the Pendergast series. I have not seen Tyrannosaurus Canyon, is that a sequel to The Codex?