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This book is listed as the first in a series featuring recurring protagonist Dr. Jeremy Logan, but he plot description doesn't mention this character. Is Dr. Logan in this book, maybe just as a minor character? I'm interested in reading this characters series, including the new novel, "The Forgotten Room", and want to get caught up. Thanks!
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Bryan Hoogewerf
The following is from an author's note promoting the latest Logan novel.
Considering that Jeremy Logan—an “enigmalogist” who studies phenomena beyond the bounds of regular science, and who proves (or disproves) things that most people would label occult or supernatural—is my main series character, his beginnings were very inauspicious. In fact, he first appeared in just a single chapter of my third novel, Deep Storm, as a researcher who stumbles upon a particularly important and unsettling fact that changes the course of the rest of the book. Logan didn’t even have a name at that point.
As it turns out, my editor was much taken with the setting of that brief introduction, and with the character of Logan (however much a character can be delineated within the bounds of a single chapter), and urged me to send him on to do greater things. Coincidentally, this recommendation meshed with something that I had already been thinking about a great deal. Always a reader of ghost and horror stories, I was curious about the relatively forgotten mystery-thriller genre of the “ghost breaker” or “supernatural sleuth.” This was something that was very popular about a hundred years ago but, from my experience anyway, seemed less common today.
And so, I set about turning Jeremy Logan, Yale professor of history, into someone who spent his off hours as a ghost detective; a researcher into the strange and inexplicable. There had been at least a faint hint of this fascination of mine as far back as Relic, my first collaboration with Doug Preston, but now I brought it fore and center. Even so, Logan made a rather gradual entrance onto the stage. In my novel following Deep Storm, Terminal Freeze, he has a lot more “screen time,” and yet is still not the obvious protagonist. It was not until the next book, The Third Gate, that he emerged fully fleshed out as the headline-catching enigmalogist of that story and the books that followed.
Considering that Jeremy Logan—an “enigmalogist” who studies phenomena beyond the bounds of regular science, and who proves (or disproves) things that most people would label occult or supernatural—is my main series character, his beginnings were very inauspicious. In fact, he first appeared in just a single chapter of my third novel, Deep Storm, as a researcher who stumbles upon a particularly important and unsettling fact that changes the course of the rest of the book. Logan didn’t even have a name at that point.
As it turns out, my editor was much taken with the setting of that brief introduction, and with the character of Logan (however much a character can be delineated within the bounds of a single chapter), and urged me to send him on to do greater things. Coincidentally, this recommendation meshed with something that I had already been thinking about a great deal. Always a reader of ghost and horror stories, I was curious about the relatively forgotten mystery-thriller genre of the “ghost breaker” or “supernatural sleuth.” This was something that was very popular about a hundred years ago but, from my experience anyway, seemed less common today.
And so, I set about turning Jeremy Logan, Yale professor of history, into someone who spent his off hours as a ghost detective; a researcher into the strange and inexplicable. There had been at least a faint hint of this fascination of mine as far back as Relic, my first collaboration with Doug Preston, but now I brought it fore and center. Even so, Logan made a rather gradual entrance onto the stage. In my novel following Deep Storm, Terminal Freeze, he has a lot more “screen time,” and yet is still not the obvious protagonist. It was not until the next book, The Third Gate, that he emerged fully fleshed out as the headline-catching enigmalogist of that story and the books that followed.
Robert
Jeremy Logan was a minor character in the book. Dr. Logan was the character that travel to the monasteries to research ancient records on the meteors impact.
Amy Grubbs
He makes a VERY brief appearance in Chapter 13 as a researcher that one of the main characters has to call on for help.
Jeanne Bufkin
I'm so glad to come on here and see this, because I was getting really confused that he hadn't entered the story yet. Thanks for the question and clarification!
Julie
Thank you, Amy Grubbs. I couldn't remember Logan in this book at all.
Maria Rose
Perhaps if you read the other Jeremy Logan books in which this specific character develops his skills prior to reading this book, you would have noticed his appearance in this book when he did show up. His skill set is looking at minor details to see connections. What he did in this book however briefly (visit multiple old libraries for a special notation of any event that was seen in the Northern Atlantic region) is his method of evaluation. Since this was his very first appearance in the novels written by this author, he was assigned a minor role but then you also need to understand how this author develops his characters.
Buster McGregor
Only one chapter about a third of the way through the story does Jeremy Logan appear. This story centers around the deep storm oil rig and problems faced by Dr. Peter Crane.
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