Status Updates From Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)

“The thought of a journalist with a grenade launcher makes me very nervous,” came D’Agosta’s voice out of the darkness."

"Now, let me see if I understand this,” he said with insulting sweetness, the parody of a father humoring a foolish son. “You want to blow up the Astor Tunnels. Do I have it right?”😳

"A hut, built entirely of human skulls,” Margo mused. “You know, I’ve heard of that before. I think there was a mention of something like that in Whittlesey’s journal.”

"Have you forgotten the delicacy of track rabbit au vin, spit-roasted over an open fire?”🐀😫

"He assumed, in a surprisingly detached sort of way, that it was an arm; it had to be an arm, yet it felt slippery and so very strong. Then, almost immediately, he felt a curious digging sensation just below his Adam’s apple. Yes, it was a most curious sensation, indeed."😵