As the death toll mounts, Agent Pendergast, attempts to postpone the opening of an exhibit called Superstition. On the eve of a heavily promoted megashow, the shredded bodies of two boys are discovered in the museum's basement. While the creature is never dull, thrill hounds couldn't ask for a creepier environment in which to encounter grad student Margo Green, journalist Bill Smithback, FBI Special Agent Pendergast, and a mob of bureaucrats, genetics geeks, and NYPD cops. Martin's editor Child isn't the brain-eating, evolutionary aberration, quaintly dubbed the ``Museum Beast,'' that hunts victims in the subterranean catacombs of New York's Museum of Natural History: It's the museum itself. The real star featured by Preston (Jennie, p. An eccentric, grisly, thoroughly original thriller sure to please doctoral candidates and gore junkies alike.
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