Relic (Pendergast, #1)

by Douglas Preston

Botocudo

South American people from Brazil

“Academic zeal is just as important as zeal in the field, Miss Green.

Kawakita was developing the Extrapolator, a program that could compare and combine genetic codes of different species.

don’t care what they call it, archaeology, anthropology, or hoodooology, it’s just plain old grave robbing to me.

Kawakita expressing his opinion on grave robbing for the sake of science

“You see, my program vindicated Frock’s theory of the Callisto Effect by showing that small changes in DNA can sometimes produce extreme changes in an organism.

“Blow when ready,” Coffey said again. Pendergast had fucked up, not him. He himself had only taken over yesterday. Maybe they wouldn’t blame him, after all. Especially if Pendergast wasn’t around. That son of a bitch could talk the hind legs off a mule.