City of Endless Night

About the Agent Pendergast Series

Aloysius Xingu L Pendergast was born circa 1960 and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is a special agent with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, based in the New Orleans, Louisiana branch. However he frequently travels out of state to investigate cases that interest him, namely the handiwork of serial killers.

Pendergast is polyglot, demonstrating mastery of French, Italian, Latin, Greek, Portuguese and Cantonese, and is semi-fluent in Mandarin. He also has some knowledge of Japanese. Before joining the FBI, he studied Anthropology at Harvard University and received a dual Doctor of Philosophy degree in Classics and Philosophy from Oxford University. He also spent a year in Tibet studying the deep meditative art of Chongg Ran, taught to him by the monks of the Gsalrig Chongg monastery. He then served with the U.S. Special Forces. His military records are classified and unknown. Some years before the events of Relic, his wife, Helen Esterhazy Pendergast, disappeared. She was presumed killed in a hunting accident while in Africa.