In many cases, Pendergast's normal appearance is irrelevant. Pendergast religiously dresses in black, bespoke suits (of Italian design) made of a special blend of wool made only in the 1950s, thus he is often described as looking like an undertaker. He has platinum blond hair, and eyes that are most often described as silver or gray. His skin is very pale and many people refer to him as "corpse-like" or as an "albino". He is fit, graceful in movement and physically powerful despite his slight frame. Pendergast is always described as being tall and slender. He communicates with one of his housekeepers, who is deaf and mute, using American Sign Language. He also has some knowledge of Japanese and Portuguese. Pendergast is polyglot, demonstrating mastery of French, Italian, Latin, Greek, and Cantonese, and appears semi-fluent in Mandarin. He spent a year in Tibet studying the deep meditative art of Chongg Ran, taught to him by the monks of the Gsalrig Chongg monastery. His interests encompass a wide variety of vastly differing walks of life, yet all focus on the enlightenment of the human mind, body, and soul. Food and drink he enjoys include Château Pétrus wine, antipasto, green tea of only the purest and most spiritual kind, gelato, and steak tartare. Pendergast appreciates the finer things in life, including expensive cuisine and wines. He is a master of psychological manipulation, disguise, and improvisation. Well-learned in many subjects, he converses easily with doctors, scientists, intellectuals, vagabonds, highly specialized masters of specific disciplines, and people of a wide variety of language and culture alike. Pendergast is generally described as being stoically aloof and eccentric, though his ineffable politeness and unerring intellect imbue him with an irresistible charm or enigmatic sense of danger if the occasion should call for it. She was presumed killed in a hunting accident while in Africa (mauled by a lion), but reappears in the "Helen Trilogy". Most of his military records are classified and unknown.Ī number of years before the series began, Pendergast was married to Helen Esterhazy Pendergast. The symbol for this company was "a ghost on a blue field, decorated with a star throwing a thunderbolt at a cat's eye with the number nine as its pupil, symbolizing the nine lives members were alleged to have." The motto was " Fidelitas usque ad mortem" (Loyalty unto death). Special Forces in the elite "Ghost Company", a spiritual successor to the "Blue Light" detachment (now Delta Force) with Michael Decker and Howard Longstreet, his superiors at the FBI, and Proctor, who later became his bodyguard and chauffeur. degrees, one in Classics and the other in philosophy, from Balliol College, Oxford. He studied anthropology at Harvard University (graduating summa cum laude) and received two D. Pendergast retains his Southern manners and mellifluous Deep Southern accent. He once worked out of the New Orleans Field Office of the FBI, but resides in New York City and works out of the New York Field Office he frequently travels out of state to investigate cases which interest him, often those appearing to be the work of serial killers.Īloysius Xingu Leng Pendergast was born in early December 1960 and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Pendergast is a special agent with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He first appeared as a supporting character in their first novel, Relic (1995), and in its 1997 sequel Reliquary, before assuming the protagonist role in the 2002 novel The Cabinet of Curiosities. Dual Doctor of Philosophy ( Classics and Philosophy)Īloysius Xingu Leng Pendergast is a fictional character appearing in novels by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
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