Fever Dream (Preston and Child novel)
ISBN 0-446-55496-0 | | |
Preceded by | Cemetery Dance | |
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Followed by | Cold Vengeance |
Fever Dream is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. It was released on May 11, 2010 by Grand Central Publishing.[1] This is the tenth book in the Special Agent Pendergast series and also the first in the Helen trilogy.[2] The preceding novel is Cemetery Dance, and it is followed by Cold Vengeance.
Plot
While visiting his family plantation in
Helen was searching for the Black Frame, a near-mythical painting made by Audubon when he was committed to a sanatorium. Pendergast and D'Agosta soon discover that Audubon's early work was particularly poor, and come to the conclusion that his sickness somehow triggered his artistic genius. However, their investigations have attracted the attentions of the same conspiracy responsible for Helen's murder, and when D'Agosta is put in mortal danger, Pendergast must turn to Captain Laura Hayward to venture deep into the Louisiana bayou and uncover the extent of the conspiracy.
Helen was a researcher on Project Aves, an attempt to create a drug that could enhance a person's latent genius by modifying a rare strain of
Once in the bayou, Pendergast finds the man responsible for Helen's death: Charles J. Slade, her former employer and the director of Project Aves. Slade has isolated himself from the world after contracting the same strain of influenza that Audubon had. After using his newfound genius to find a cure for