I finished Reliquary by him and Child. I really enjoyed the book. The guy who leads our group bike rides thought it wasn't as good as Relic but he is continuing to read the rest of the Special Agent Pendegast series. Reading the non fiction THe Lost City of the Monkey God I get the sense that certain aspects of the writer/journalist Bill Smithback are abased upon Douglas Preston himself. In Monkey God Preston on his first night in the rain forest founds himself face to face with a fer de lance snake. It was so Smithback to me - putting himself in harms way seeking a story. There's more but that is the one I just read.
There is a scene of a woman wiping up a bunch of middle and upper class types into a rage. That seems true to life to me. It doesn't take much to get people riled up to the point of violence.
Back to snakes:
I am not morbidly afraid of snakes, but Barbara Kingsolver Poisonwood Diary and know this book had allowed 2 snakes to slither into my subconscious; the green Mamba and now the fer de lance. A few years ago a local herpetologist bitten by fer de lance while in Central America. She survived only because she was with friends who got her immediate care with antivenom. Even with that she walks with a limp because the bite deformed her leg.
Fer de lance
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