24 Facts About Aloysius Pendergast

Aloysius Xingu Leng Pendergast is a fictional character appearing in novels by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.

Aloysius Pendergast first appeared as a supporting character in their first novel, Relic, and in its 1997 sequel Reliquary, before assuming the protagonist's role in the 2002 novel The Cabinet of Curiosities.

Aloysius Pendergast 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.

Aloysius Xingu Leng Pendergast was born in early December 1960 and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Aloysius Pendergast retains his Southern manners and mellifluous Deep Southern accent.

Aloysius Pendergast studied anthropology at Harvard University and received two D Phil.

Aloysius Pendergast once served with the US Special Forces in the elite "Ghost Company", a spiritual successor to the "Blue Light" detachment with Michael Decker and Howard Longstreet, his superiors at the FBI, and Proctor, who later became his bodyguard and chauffeur.

Aloysius Pendergast was presumed killed in a hunting accident while in Africa, but reappears in the "Helen Trilogy".

Aloysius 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.

Aloysius Pendergast is a master of psychological manipulation, disguise, and improvisation.

Aloysius Pendergast appreciates the finer things in life, including expensive cuisine and wines.

Aloysius Pendergast has a great distaste for opera, and a disdain for the lobster roll, but will consume convenience store staples, like beef jerky, when tasks require such expediency.

Aloysius Pendergast's interests encompass a wide variety of vastly differing walks of life, yet all focus on the enlightenment of the human mind, body, and soul.

Aloysius Pendergast spent a year in Tibet studying the deep meditative art of Chongg Ran, taught to him by the monks of the Gsalrig Chongg monastery.

Aloysius Pendergast is polyglot, demonstrating mastery of French, Italian, Latin, Greek, and Cantonese, and appears semi-fluent in Mandarin.

Aloysius Pendergast is fit, graceful in movement and physically powerful despite his slight frame.

Aloysius Pendergast's skin is very pale and many people refer to him as "corpse-like" or as an "albino".

Aloysius Pendergast has platinum blond hair, and eyes that are most often described as silver or gray.

Aloysius Pendergast owns a 1959 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith.

Aloysius Pendergast's chauffeur and personal assistant is a mysterious man named Proctor.

All of Aloysius Pendergast's suits are custom-made in Italy, and his shoes hand-made by John Lobb of London.

Aloysius Pendergast maintains an apartment at The Dakota in New York City, and later inherits and renovates a Beaux Arts mansion near Harlem from his great-granduncle in The Cabinet of Curiosities.

Aloysius Pendergast carries a variety of hidden tools, such as lock picks, flashlights of various sizes, test tubes, syringes, and forensic chemicals.

Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast appears in several stand-alone novels and stars in two trilogies.