Reliquary (novel)
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Reliquary is the New York Times Best Selling sequel to Relic (novel), by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The legacy of the blood-maddened Mbwun lives on in "Reliquary", but the focus is shifted from the original museum setting to the tunnels beneath the streets of New York City.
[edit] Characters
Most of the characters from Relic make a comeback in this book including Margo Green, now a curator in her own right, Lieutenant D'Agosta, Special Agent Pendergast, Bill Smithback and a now retired Dr Frock. Greg Kawakita also makes a return - of sorts - and he is slightly less lively in this book. Several new characters also appear in this book. The seven ones being sergeant Laura Hayward, a female police officer studying the underground homeless for her degree, Bryce Harriman, Smithback's rival and crime reporter for the New York Times, Simon Brambell, an esteemed Medical examiner whose brother is featured in other Preston/Child novels, NYPD Chief Raymond Horlocker, NYPD Captain Jack Waxie, an obstinate, obese police captain who D'Agosta in particular dislikes, Anette Wisher, wealthy mother of Pamela Wisher a murder victim, and Mephisto, the underground leader of the Route 666 community, which finds themselves preyed upon by a mysterious group of people which occasionally affect a "real person" (quote from Chief Horlocker in the book) in "topside" New York.
[edit] Plot
The story picks up where the epilogue of Relic left off. Two skeletons are found in the Harlem River. They are headless and when more headless murders followed, there is suspicion of a second Mbwun monster. Everyone in the original books plus more team up to solve the puzzle. The mystery soon leads underground to the Mole People and even deeper towards mysterious beings, called the Wrinklers. Soon, they realize that the wrinklers are led by Frock, who has taken a modified version of the mybwun plant to regain the use of his legs. He also gave the drug to the people who were to become the wrinklers. After going underground, the group kills them with an explosion and a flood.
