Two Graves Audiobook

"Two Graves " is a thriller by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, accomplished writers both individually and as co-creators.

FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast has been living with the knowledge that his wife was dead for the last twelve years. At first he thought her death an accident, but then he heard she had been murdered. Upon learning that his wife, Helen, is alive, he arranges a glorious reunion only to have her snatched from him once more.

Now that he knows she is alive, he devotes his every effort to finding her again and rescuing her from the clutches of her abductors.

Audiobook listeners will admire Agent Pendergast. He is a little like Sherlock Holmes, but he is also intensely focused, highly intelligent and a little eccentric to boot. He provides a lovable character with whom readers and listeners alike will identify. Nothing will put him off the trail of his beloved wife, not even when he is caught up in a chilling serial killer hunt in New York containing shades of the supernatural.

Pendergast's hunt takes him deep into the forests of South America, where he will confront evil incarnate.

There are a number of layers to this chilling, suspenseful thriller by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.

About the authors: Douglas Preston was born in 1957 in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1955 and grew up near Wellesley. He attended Pomona College in California and studied in a variety of areas, finally settling on English and literature. He worked at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and has taught writing at Princeton University.

Lincoln Child was born in Westport, Connecticut. Following a childhood love of writing, he attended Carleton College in Minnesota, where he majored in English and eventually wo rked as a publishing assistant with St. Martin's Press in New York City.

"This book marks the end of a very long story between Pendergast and his wife Helen. All I can say is that I truly wished that it would have ended better for Helen and Aloysius. Pendergast is a great person and deserves to be happy, he has helped a lot of people. It has come to our attention that Helen had kept many secrets from Aloysius with the help of her brother Judson. I don't know why Helen could not have been honest with Pendergast, if only she could have confided in him all of this would not have come to past. Pendergast is a very resourceful person and would have put the end to the "Der Bund" long ago. Whenever Nazi's are involved you can be certain that no good is being done. As we know from our history books the Nazi's did experiments on their prisoners of war, so for them to perform all of these experiments on twins in their continued search for the "Superior Race" fit right into the story line and was very believable. Can you imagine the thoughts in Pendergast mind when he finds out he not only has a son but two, and they are twins. Alban the superior one and Tristram, the name given by Aloysius. I would have like to know from where Aloysius came up with the name. So much time has past with the publication of this trilogy (Fever Dreams, Cold Vengeance,and Two Graves)that I will have to reread them once again now that I have all three of them and can read one right after the other. This will allow me to follow the story line more completely and most likely answer some of my questions, I have need for answers. I was totally surprised by Pendergast physical trials throughout this novel...the chase of Helen and the finale at the end where he brought down the Der Bund once and for all. I was asking myself as all of this was happening, how old is Pendergast? And how long can he keep this up? As far as the way he handled Helen's death, with the drinking and the drugs and the self imposed quarantine from his friends and family, I would not have thought that Aloysius would have handled it quite this way. I found myself wanting to reach out and help him through with his grief. Shouting the whole time get up and get moving! Get the bad guys! Once again Preston and Child have out done themselves in giving us another great Pendergast Novel."

— Jcurtis (5 out of 5 stars)