The Wheel of Darkness

By Lincoln Child

Subjects: Suspense fiction, Queen Victoria (Ship), Monks, Aloysius Pendergast (Fictitious character), Suspense, New York Times bestseller, Archaeological thefts, Ocean liners, nyt:mass-market-paperback=2008-07-13, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Fiction, Pendergast, Aloysius (Fictitious character), Government investigators, Fiction, thrillers, general, Thriller, Americans, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, China, fiction

Description: FBI Special Agent Pendergast is taking a break from work to take Constance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping to give her closure and a sense of the world that she's missed. They head to Tibet, where Pendergast intensively trained in martial arts and spiritual studies. At a remote monastery, they learn that a rare and dangerous artifact the monks have been guarding for generations has been mysteriously stolen. As a favor, Pendergast agrees to track and recover the relic. A twisting trail of bloodshed leads Pendergast and Constance to the maiden voyage of the Britannia, the world's largest and most luxurious ocean liner---and to an Atlantic crossing fraught with terror.