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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Diogenes orchestrates his complex plot both to get revenge on his brother and to [[spoiler:manipulate him into stealing a set of priceless diamonds from the museum. Aloysius complies with his brother's demands, then deliberately draws the FBI and the NYPD to the drop point, explaining that Diogenes thought of ''almost'' every possible contingency... but the notion that Aloysius would willingly sacrifice his own freedom to thwart Diogenes's plan would never have crossed the latter's mind.]]
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** Since it's not important to the story progression, we aren't even given a ''hint'' of how Eli Glinn [[Literature/TheIceLimit survived his debut appearance]].
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* UnexplainedRecovery: When we [[Literature/TheIceLimit last saw Eli Glinn]], he was at ground zero of [[spoiler: an asteroid that reacts violently to contact with salt water suddenly getting exposed to it as the ship it's on goes down in freezing, stormy seas just off Antarctica]] and is somehow alive and only paraplegic after all of that. PlotArmor doesn't even ''begin'' to justify it.

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* BoredWithInsanity: Diogenes says that he let himself slip into complete madness for sometime before he learned to come back from it into a manageable insanity.
-->''And yet it was at this very moment, as he balanced on the cruel knife-edge of reality, that he comprehended there ''was'' a purpose waiting for him back in the real world. A double purpose: a reckoning and a reclamation. It would take decades of planning. It would be, in his own self-referential world, a work of art: the masterpiece of a lifetime... And so Diogenes did return to the world.''



* CrazySane: Diogenes says that he let himself slip into complete madness for sometime before he learned to come back from it into a manageable insanity.
-->''And yet it was at this very moment, as he balanced on the cruel knife-edge of reality, that he comprehended there ''was'' a purpose waiting for him back in the real world. A double purpose: a reckoning and a reclamation. It would take decades of planning. It would be, in his own self-referential world, a work of art: the masterpiece of a lifetime... And so Diogenes did return to the world.''

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* CrazySane: Diogenes says muses at one point that he The Event let himself slip into complete him see the true nature of the world, and his madness for sometime before he learned to come back from it into a manageable insanity.
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was at this very moment, as he balanced on the cruel knife-edge of reality, that he comprehended there ''was'' a purpose waiting for him back in the real world. A double purpose: a reckoning and a reclamation. It would take decades of planning. It would be, in his own self-referential world, a work of art: the masterpiece of a lifetime... And so Diogenes did return to the world.''only reasonable response.
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* IllWaitForYou: [[spoiler: When Pendergast tells her he can never be with her as long as his brother is out there, Viola tells him she'll expect to see him on her island the day he is free.]]

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* IllWaitForYou: IWillWaitForYou: [[spoiler: When Pendergast tells her he can never be with her as long as his brother is out there, Viola tells him she'll expect to see him on her island the day he is free.]]
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* [[spoiler:VillainExitStageLeft]]: [[spoiler:Diogenes slips away in the tunnels]].

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* [[spoiler:VillainExitStageLeft]]: VillainExitStageLeft: [[spoiler:Diogenes slips away in the tunnels]].
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** Also Mime, who activates all his security systems when Pendergast warns him about Diogenes.

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* [[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim Break Her Heart To Save Her]]: D'Agosta breaks up with Hayward so Diogenes won't target her.

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* [[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim Break Her Heart To Save Her]]: BelligerentSexualTension: Nora recounts how she first met and fell in love with Smithback in ''Literature/{{Thunderhead}}'' and how she thought he was "the biggest jerk I'd ever met."
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D'Agosta breaks up with Hayward so Diogenes won't target her.



* WhenAJerkLovesATsundere: Nora recounts how she first met and fell in love with Smithback in ''Literature/{{Thunderhead}}'' and how she thought he was "the biggest jerk I'd ever met."
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''Dance of Death'' is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child first published in 2005. It is part of their informal [[Literature/AgentPendergast Agent Pendergast series]]. This book marked the [[MilestoneCelebration 10th Anniversary]] of Pendergast's first appearance in ''Literature/TheRelic'', and as such, featured the return appearances of several characters from past books, including a few that hadn't yet appeared in any Pendergast-related novels from the greater "Preston-Child-verse" such as Eli Glinn from ''Literature/TheIceLimit''.

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''Dance of Death'' is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child first published in 2005. It is part of their informal [[Literature/AgentPendergast Agent Pendergast series]]. series]] and the second novel in the Diogenes trilogy. This book also marked the [[MilestoneCelebration 10th Anniversary]] of Pendergast's first appearance in ''Literature/TheRelic'', and as such, featured the return appearances of several characters from past books, including a few that hadn't yet appeared in any Pendergast-related novels from the greater "Preston-Child-verse" such as Eli Glinn from ''Literature/TheIceLimit''.
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''Dance of Death'' is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child first published in 2005. It is part of their informal [[Literature/AgentPendergast Agent Pendergast series]].

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''Dance of Death'' is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child first published in 2005. It is part of their informal [[Literature/AgentPendergast Agent Pendergast series]].
series]]. This book marked the [[MilestoneCelebration 10th Anniversary]] of Pendergast's first appearance in ''Literature/TheRelic'', and as such, featured the return appearances of several characters from past books, including a few that hadn't yet appeared in any Pendergast-related novels from the greater "Preston-Child-verse" such as Eli Glinn from ''Literature/TheIceLimit''.
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''Dance Of Death'' is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child first published in 2005. It is part of their informal [[Literature/AgentPendergast Agent Pendergast series]].

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''Dance Of of Death'' is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child first published in 2005. It is part of their informal [[Literature/AgentPendergast Agent Pendergast series]].
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* TheCameo: Corrie makes a brief appearance during one chapter where one of Pendergast's associates helps put her in hiding in case Diogenes attempts to target her.


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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Turns out Smithback has published novels based off the adventures he took part in (''Literature/TheRelic'', ''Literature/{{Reliquary}}'', and ''Literature/{{Thunderhead}}''). When Margo and Nora meet for the first time he comments on his "main characters meeting for the first time" and Nora mentions that he's improved a lot as a writer since his first book.
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* SelfDeprecation: When Smithback tries to convince the hospital director that he's sane so he can leave, one of the things he tries to drop as proof is the fact that he's a published author and that anyone can simply look at the back cover of one of his books for a picture. Said books all share titles with Preston and Child's other works. The Doctor doesn't even try to humor him, citing that such fiction is unavailable at the hospital library and condescendingly states that it appeals to the LowestCommonDenominator anyway.
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* RevengeByProxy: Diogenes targets Pendergast's friends and colleagues.
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* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: Margo is murdered a few chapters after her reintroduction, though Pendergast managed to save her and fake her death until the novel's end]].

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* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: Margo is murdered a few chapters after her reintroduction, though it's ultimately subverted as Pendergast managed to save her and fake her death until the novel's end]].
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* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Pendergast saves Margo by quietly transferring her to a hospital out of the city and fudging paperwork at the morgue to identify a random body as her. Diogenes thinks she succumbed to her injuries, and she is instantly safe from further attack.]]
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* ItsPersonal: Diogenes is out to destroy his brother on every level he can think of. He sets out to murder anyone he cares about and pin it on him [[spoiler: and pull of the biggest crime of his life while Pendergast is completely distracted and unable to stop him]].

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* ItsPersonal: Diogenes is out to destroy his brother on every level he can think of. He sets out to murder anyone he cares about and pin it on him [[spoiler: and pull of off the biggest crime of his life while Pendergast is completely distracted and unable to stop him]].
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* TheDogWasTheMastermind: [[spoiler:Hugo Menzies, the head of the Anthropology department and minor supporting character in Nora's side story, was actually Diogenes and pulled off the heist under everyone's noses.]]

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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Despite all of Hayward's begging, D'Agosta throws away his career and possibly his freedom to help Pendergast.



* YoureInsane: When Diogenes delivers his MotiveRant to her, Viola can only say "My God," conveying her realization that he is completely and insane.

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* YoureInsane: When Diogenes delivers his MotiveRant to her, Viola can only say "My God," conveying her realization that he is completely and insane.
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* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: [[spoiler:Pendergast tells Viola she'll never be safe with him as long as Diogenes is loose]].

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