Eccentric Millionaire: Mostly talks in a Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness fashion, drives a Rolls Royce, has a Zen garden inside his apartment, and looks like an undertaker.Cultured Badass: His wife was one too before she died.

Cowboy Cop: Technically, he's an FBI agent, but Pendergast is quite willing to bend or break the rules when he needs to.Catchphrase: 'A very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.'.Busman's Holiday: In both The Wheel of Darkness and White Fire Pendergast starts out taking some time off away from his usual haunting grounds to recover from stressful events, only to be roped into some new case.Bunny-Ears Lawyer: An FBI agent who spends almost zero time working on actual FBI cases.However, Pendergast proved so popular that the authors made him the focus of the following books in the series, so much so that the series of novels has become informally named after him. Indeed, in the movie version of Relic the Pendergast character was removed completely to focus on Green and D'Agosta instead. Breakout Character: The main character in The Relic and Reliquary was anthropology post-grad Margo Green, with FBI Agent Pendergast being a supporting character alongside Lt.Badass in a Nice Suit: Never seen without one of his three dozen identical hand-tailored black Italian suits, except when in disguise.Appears In: The Relic, Reliquary, The Cabinet of Curiosities, Still Life with Crows, Brimstone, Dance of Death, Book of the Dead, The Wheel of Darkness, Cemetery Dance, Fever Dream, Cold Vengeance, Two Graves, White Fire, Blue Labyrinth, Crimson Shore

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