The Cabinet of Dr. Leng by Douglas Preston
Amazingly, Constance returned to New York City in the late 1800s, where she was born, and she is seizing the opportunity even though it means permanently leaving the present. Constance embarks on a mission to stop the incidents that result in her sister’s and brother’s deaths. Dr Enoch Leng, Manhattan’s most notorious serial murderer, is waiting along the path to redemption, ready to strike at the first sign of trouble. Pendergast is frantically looking for Constance in modern-day New York in the meantime. But will he succeed in finding her before it’s too late?
The Cabinet of Dr. Leng by Douglas Preston
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the historical book with a sluggish pace that is set in the English countryside and features impeccable manners at tea. All other reading, however, is put on hold as soon as a new Pendergast book is released. Going back in time to a distant dimension in an effort to right a long-ago wrong The plot boils over as retaliation, brotherly love, hope, and a subplot involving the theft of Native American culture converge. To save her, Pendergast intends to travel through time.
The loss of Constance Greene, his ward and love, has crushed FBI agent Pendergast. Constance has traveled to New York City in 1880 in a parallel universe with a time machine. She wants to make Dr Leng pay for his nefarious crimes, save her brothers and put right countless wrongs. To save her, Pendergast intends to travel through time.
The investigation into a murder on the South Dakota reservation is then given to Special Agent Armstrong Coldmoon, who has been collaborating with Pendergast. The bizarre murder of the curator of Native American antiquities at the New York Museum of Natural History is being looked into by Lieutenant Commander Vincent D’Agosta in New York City. The connection between Coldmoon’s case and D’Agosta’s case is quickly realized.
All of the plot threads flow along quickly, and each new chapter sees an increase in intrigue. You will be equally engaged in all of the plot lines because the parallel times and cases are all in line with each other interesting, difficult, and nuanced. The new information will be welcomed as the chapters flip between stories because we know the other storylines will be updated in later chapters.
