Relic (Pendergast, #1)

by Douglas Preston

Margo decided that if he dumped the tweed jacket, shed a few pounds, and swapped the horn-rims

rims for contacts, he could almost be cute.

“And that Museum is no place to work.

Cooped up day after day with all those dead, stuffed creatures, things in jars. What kind of a life is that? Come back and work for me. We’d get you a house