History Literature / FeverDream

-->(For the Creator/GeorgeRRMartin novel, see ''Literature/FevreDream''.)

Twelve years after her death, Agent Pendergast learns a horrible fact about his wife - she was murdered. His grief over her loss renewed, he begins an exhaustive search to bring her killers to justice and learn just why she had to die.

* AndThisIsFor: [[spoiler: Pendergast lists off all the wrongs the posse did or attempted to do to him and Hayward as he destroys their boats and bar.]]

* BoomHeadshot: "Yes, he is most certainly dead."
* CliffHanger: [[spoiler: Pendergast arranges a hunting trip with Judson at the end of the book, but doesn't know that he's been the one trying to kill him throughout the entire novel.]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: Inverted. [[spoiler: Pendergast destroys Tiny's Bar in retaliation for him and his gang trying to rape Laura and kill the both of them.]]

* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Charles Slade and June Brodie. Although the the former isn't faking death anymore by the end of the book]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler: Slade's affliction with the avian flu. Hence why Pendergast doesn't see the need to kill him himself and gets Slade to do the deed instead.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: Why Esterhazy kills Blackletter, Blast, Ventura, and nearly Pendergast.]]

* TheMole: [[spoiler: Maurice]]
** Although this is later subverted in ''Literature/ColdVengeance''. He was never aware of [[spoiler: Esterhazy's]] real intentions.

** Seems to be the case for Esterhazy. [[spoiler: Subverted when he attempts to kill Pendergast and winds up shooting D'Agosta and it turns out he's carrying out a much darker agenda.]]

* ViralTransformation: In mental capacity.
* WhatTheHellHero: Hayward lays into Pendergast in when [[spoiler: D'Agosta gets shot.]] She even slugs him.
* XanatosGambit: The result of Pendergast's confrontation with [[spoiler: Slade. If he doesn't kill himself, [[CruelMercy then he's stuck living with the affliction that's eaten away at his mind]] [[FateWorseThanDeath so much that death would be a blessing for him]]. If Slade kills himself, then Pendergast accomplishes the goal that he set out for in the first place - namely, the end of the man who ordered his wife's death.]]

* [[spoiler: FakingTheDead]]: [[spoiler: Charles Slade and June Brodie. Although the the former isn't faking death anymore by the end of the book]]

* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler: How Pendergast deals with Slade. If he doesn't kill himself, [[CruelMercy then he's stuck living with the affliction that's eaten away at his mind]] [[FateWorseThanDeath so much that death would be a blessing for him]]. If Slade kills himself, then Pendergast accomplishes the goal that he set out for in the first place - namely, the end of the man who ordered his wife's death.]]

* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler: How Pendergast deals with Slade. If he doesn't kill himself, [[CruelMercy then he's stuck with the madness that's eating away at his mind]] [[FateWorseThanDeath so much that death for him]]. If Slade kills himself, then Pendergast accomplishes the goal that he set out for in the first place - namely, the end of the man who ordered his wife's death.]]

* WhamLine: [[spoiler:Helen is alive.]]

* PosthumousCharacter: Helen. [[[[{{Literature/ColdVengeance}} However...]]]]

* PosthumousCharacter: Helen.

* RoomFullOfCrazy: The entire Doane house, which certain rooms show the descent into madness of individual family members.

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''Fever Dream'' is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child first published in 2010. It is part of their informal [[Literature/AgentPendergast Agent Pendergast series]].

''Fever Dream'' is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child first published in 2010. It is part of their informal [[Literature/AgentPendergast Agent Pendergast series]].