Verses for the Dead by Douglas PrestonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
The latest Pendergast novel still doesn't quite match the world-class thrills of Fever Dream to Crimson Shore-era Pendergast, but it does get the nice bump up to a four-star book (I really give it a 3.5 tbh) for the ways it shakes up the usual Pendergast formula. Namely, Miami as its primary setting, and giving Pendergast a new official FBI partner in Agent Coldmoon, an enigmatic and magnetic Lakota Native American (with an Italian mom, hence his green eyes) whose style is very cool and rational, but he's got extra complexity because the bosses are trying to use him to spy on Pendergast. Maybe it's a little less good a book because of how they travel up and down the East Coast from sunny Miami to snowy Maine and upstate New York for stretches just long enough to really disrupt the flow of the story, and not long enough to feel like utterly necessary diversions. But for Pendergast and Coldmoon - a character I sincerely hope to see again in future novels, with or without Pendergast - I'm always happy to have read this one, and ready to pitch it to potential customers at work.
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