The Wheel of Darkness

Description:

FBI Special Agent Pendergast is taking a break from work to take Constance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping to give her closure and a sense of the world that she's missed. They head to Tibet, where Pendergast intensively trained in martial arts and spiritual studies. At a remote monastery, they learn that a rare and dangerous artifact the monks have been guarding for generations has been mysteriously stolen. As a favor, Pendergast agrees to track and recover the relic. A twisting trail of bloodshed leads Pendergast and Constance to the maiden voyage of the Britannia, the world's largest and most luxurious ocean liner---and to an Atlantic crossing fraught with terror.

subjects: Ocean liners,  Suspense,  Aloysius Pendergast (Fictitious character),  Government investigators,  Monks,  Fiction,  Suspense fiction,  Americans,  Queen Victoria (Ship),  Thriller,  Archaeological thefts,  Pendergast, Aloysius (Fictitious character),  Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths,  Fiction, thrillers, general,  nyt:mass-market-paperback=2008-07-13,  New York Times bestseller,  China, fiction,  Fiction, thrillers, suspense