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* [[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim Break Her Heart To Save Her]]: D'Agosta breaks up with Hayward so Diogenes won't target her.
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* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: [[spoiler:Pendergast realizes that Diogenes will not kill him at The Iron Clock, he needs him alive to enact his revenge]].
-->[[spoiler:'':You need me, because without me -- without your ''hatred'' of me -- you would have nothing left.'']]
-->[[spoiler:'':You need me, because without me -- without your ''hatred'' of me -- you would have nothing left.'']]
* MotiveRant: Diogenes likes gloating about his master plan as he enacts it's final stages.
* StolenMacGuffinReveal: [[spoiler: Diogenes loses it when he realizes he stole a fake Lucifer's Heart. The real diamond was never on display, locked safely in the insurance company's vault.]]
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* [[spoiler:VillainExitStageLeft]]: [[spoiler:Diogenes slips away in the tunnels]].
* WhenAJerkLovesATsundere: Nora recounts how she first met and fell in love with Smithback in ''Literature/{{Thunderhead}}'' and how she thought he was "the biggest jerk I'd ever met.""
* YoureInsane: When Diogenes delivers his MotiveRant to her, Viola can only say "My God," conveying her realization that he is completely and insane.
* WhenAJerkLovesATsundere: Nora recounts how she first met and fell in love with Smithback in ''Literature/{{Thunderhead}}'' and how she thought he was "the biggest jerk I'd ever met.
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* HostageForMacGuffin: Pendergast sets up a trade with Diogenes [[spoiler: Viola for the ''real'' Lucifer's Heart]].
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* ItsPersonal: Diogenes is out to destroy his brother on every level he can think of. He sets out to murder anyone he cares about and pin it on him [[spoiler: and pull of the biggest crime of his life while Pendergast is completely distracted and unable to stop him]].
** In a more diminished sense, Agent Coffey is downright gleeful that Pendergast is now an outlaw and he can exact revenge for his embarrassment at his hands in ''Literature/TheRelic''. He even orders his agents to shoot him on sight.
** In a more diminished sense, Agent Coffey is downright gleeful that Pendergast is now an outlaw and he can exact revenge for his embarrassment at his hands in ''Literature/TheRelic''. He even orders his agents to shoot him on sight.
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* LimitedWardrobe: Pendergast has three dozen identical suits made out of the same antique bolt of fabric. The only times he's not wearing one of them is when he's in disguise.
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* MasterOfDisguise: Both Pendergast brothers. Diogenes takes it to diabolical lengths, creating half a dozen people and living as them, some for ''decades''.
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* TheChessmaster: Diogenes. Some of his moves have been plotted out for over a decade, [[spoiler:including the creation of Hugo Minzes]].
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* TheChessmaster: Diogenes. Some of his moves have been plotted out for over a decade, [[spoiler:including the creation of Hugo Minzes]].Menzies]].
-->''And yet it was at this very moment, as he balanced on the cruel knife-edge of reality, that he comprehended there ''was'' a purpose waiting for him back in the real world. A double purpose: a reckoning and a reclamation. It would take decades of planning. It would be, in his own self-referential world, a work of art: the masterpiece of a lifetime... And so Diogenes did return to the world.''
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* TalktativeLoon: Smithback thinks Throckmorton is just as sane as he is, until he suddenly veers from their completely normal conversation to shouting random quotes from Shakespeare and then insists that he has to leave to do the Lord's bidding.
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* IllWaitForYou: [[spoiler: When Pendergast tells her he can never be with her as long as his brother is out there, she tells him she'll expect to see him on her island the day he is free.]]
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* IllWaitForYou: [[spoiler: When Pendergast tells her he can never be with her as long as his brother is out there, she Viola tells him she'll expect to see him on her island the day he is free.]]
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* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: Margo is murdered a few chapters after her reintroduction though Pendergast managed to save her and fake her death until the novel's end]].
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* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: Margo is brutally murdered a few chapters after her reintroduction though Pendergast managed to save her and fake her death until the novel's end]].
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* CallingCards: In his taunts to Pendergast, Diogenes uses Tarot cards to name the targets.
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* CallingCards: CallingCard: In his taunts to Pendergast, Diogenes uses Tarot cards to name the targets.
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* BavarianFireDrill: Pendergast blows through security at the airport by employing these tactics, flattering the guards and convincing them that he already has his clearance to see the security tapes. The best part comes when he promises a surly technician a ten thousand dollar reward for pulling up the footage they need as fast as humanly possible. When he asks where he can collect his reward, Pendergast simply says "Ten thousand dollars? Just for doing your job? A ridiculous idea." The other techs get a kick out of it.
* CallingCards: In his taunts to Pendergast, Diogenes uses Tarot cards to name the targets.
* ChekhovsExhibit: [[spoiler: Several mentions are made of the Diamond Hall at the museum in the side plot, but it is played as secondary to the Sacred Images exhibition that is being set up. The Diamond Hall turns out to be Diogenes's real target and he cleans it out while Pendergast is trying to hunt down his next named murder victim]].
* ChekhovsExhibit: [[spoiler: Several mentions are made of the Diamond Hall at the museum in the side plot, but it is played as secondary to the Sacred Images exhibition that is being set up. The Diamond Hall turns out to be Diogenes's real target and he cleans it out while Pendergast is trying to hunt down his next named murder victim]].
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* FunnySchizophrenia: Throckmorton's outburt is disturbing to Smithback, but it's comes off as quite funny to the reader.
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* FunnySchizoprhenia: Throckmorton's outburt is disturbing to Smithback, but it's comes off as quite funny to the reader.
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* GraveClouds: [[spoiler:Margo]] is buried in the dead of winter. [[spoiler:Nora]] notes that it's so cold she thinks the tears might freeze on her face.
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* TheChessmaster: Diogenes.
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* TheChessmaster: Diogenes. Some of his moves have been plotted out for over a decade, [[spoiler:including the creation of Hugo Minzes]].
* CrazySane: Diogenes says that he let himself slip into complete madness for sometime before he learned to come back from it into a manageable insanity.
* FunnySchizoprhenia: Throckmorton's outburt is disturbing to Smithback, but it's comes off as quite funny to the reader.
* CrazySane: Diogenes says that he let himself slip into complete madness for sometime before he learned to come back from it into a manageable insanity.
* FunnySchizoprhenia: Throckmorton's outburt is disturbing to Smithback, but it's comes off as quite funny to the reader.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Margo describes Smithback this way.
-->''"Funny, he tends to make a bad first impression, until you realize he's got a heart of gold... and the courage of a lion to match."''
-->''"Funny, he tends to make a bad first impression, until you realize he's got a heart of gold... and the courage of a lion to match."''
* MoreHypnotizableThanHeThinks: Subverted. Glinn brings in the best hypnotist in the world to regress Pendergast and find out what happened to make Diogenes crazy and hate him. When the hypnotist pulls out all the stops, it seems as if Pendergast has finally submitted to the regression. He sits up, remarks that the whole thing is a waste of time and isn't working and walks out.
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* SplitPersonality: The workup on [[spoiler: Pendergast]] Hayward has done pins him as [[spoiler: a psychopath with Dissociative Identity Disorder, and leads her to believe that Diogenes is a figment of his imaginations and he himself is the killer]].
* TalktativeLoon: Smithback thinks Throckmorton is just as sane as he is, until he suddenly veers from their completely normal conversation to shouting random quotes from Shakespeare and then insists that he has to leave to do the Lord's bidding.
* TheUnreveal: "The Event" that made Diogenes hate Pendergast so thoroughly and drove him to evil and insanity is built up through the whole novel. We don't get to find out what happened before the story isover.over.
* WhenAJerkLovesATsunder: Nora recounts how she first met and fell in love with Smithback in ''Literature/{{Thunderhead}}'' and how she thought he was "the biggest jerk I'd ever met."
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* TheUnreveal: "The Event" that made Diogenes hate Pendergast so thoroughly and drove him to evil and insanity is built up through the whole novel. We don't get to find out what happened before the story is
* WhenAJerkLovesATsunder: Nora recounts how she first met and fell in love with Smithback in ''Literature/{{Thunderhead}}'' and how she thought he was "the biggest jerk I'd ever met."
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* MythologyGag: D'Agosta notices a book in Pendergast's apartment titled ''Ice Limit [=III=]: Return to Cape Horn'', a joke on the authors' promise to deliver a sequel to ''Literature/TheIceLimit''.
* NotMyDriver: Pendergast abducts Smithback by posing as a cabbie.
* NotMyDriver: Pendergast abducts Smithback by posing as a cabbie.
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* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Diogenes rescues Pendergast from Foscoe before the story starts. Not because he cared about his brother, but because destroying him was ''his'' job.
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* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Diogenes rescues Pendergast from Foscoe before the story starts. Not because he cared about his brother, but because destroying him was ''his'' job.job.
* TheUnreveal: "The Event" that made Diogenes hate Pendergast so thoroughly and drove him to evil and insanity is built up through the whole novel. We don't get to find out what happened before the story is over.
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Aloysius and Diogenes Pendergast have been at odds since they were children. Aloysius was a quiet, brilliant child, while Diogenes was brewing something dark inside of him. Now, Diogenes is planning his "perfect" crime with a simple dare to his brother - -- "stop me if you can."
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Pendergast outwits Diogenes by doing the one thing Diogenes wouldn't have though of doing himself - he calls in the police, knowing he'll be caught.]]
* IllWaitForYou: [[spoiler: When Pendergast tells her he can never be with her as long as his brother is out there, she tells him she'll expect to see him on her island the day he is free.]]
* LastNameBasis: Pendergast doesn't like being called Aloysius. [[spoiler: Making it a particularly touching moment when D'Agosta addresses him by his first name when saying that he won't abandon him to save himself.]]
* LethalChef: D'Agosta makes a holy mess of Laura's kitchen as he mentally laments that ''men'' are supposed to be the bestchefs.chefs.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Diogenes rescues Pendergast from Foscoe before the story starts. Not because he cared about his brother, but because destroying him was ''his'' job.
* IllWaitForYou: [[spoiler: When Pendergast tells her he can never be with her as long as his brother is out there, she tells him she'll expect to see him on her island the day he is free.]]
* LastNameBasis: Pendergast doesn't like being called Aloysius. [[spoiler: Making it a particularly touching moment when D'Agosta addresses him by his first name when saying that he won't abandon him to save himself.]]
* LethalChef: D'Agosta makes a holy mess of Laura's kitchen as he mentally laments that ''men'' are supposed to be the best
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Diogenes rescues Pendergast from Foscoe before the story starts. Not because he cared about his brother, but because destroying him was ''his'' job.
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Aloysius and Diogenes Pendergast have been at odds since they were children. Aloysius was a quiet, brilliant child, while Diogenes was brewing something dark inside of him. Now, Diogenes is planning his "perfect" crime with a simple dare to his brother - "stop me if you can."
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* LethalChef: D'Agosta makes a holy mess of Laura's kitchen as he mentally laments that ''men'' are supposed to be the best chefs.
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* MagnificentBastard: Diogones almost seems like a prototypical [[TheDarkKnightSaga Joker]] with how he plans his murder sprees [[spoiler: and manages to trick his brother into thinking revenge is his real goal]].
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* MagnificentBastard: Diogones almost seems like a prototypical [[TheDarkKnightSaga Joker]] with how he plans his murder sprees [[spoiler: and manages to trick his brother into thinking revenge is his real goal]].
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Diogenes is almost always one step ahead of Pendergast.
* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: Margo]] is brutally murdered a few chapters after her reintroduction [[spoiler: though Pendergast managed to save her and fake her death until the novel's end]].
* TheBusCameBack: Margo and Smithback return for the first time since Literature/Reliquary and Literature/CabinetOfCuriosities.
* MagnificentBastard: Diogones almost seems like a prototypical [[TheDarkKnightSaga Joker]] with how he plans his murder sprees [[spoiler: and manages to trick his brother into thinking revenge is his real goal]].
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Diogenes is almost always one step ahead of Pendergast.
* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: Margo]] is brutally murdered a few chapters after her reintroduction [[spoiler: though Pendergast managed to save her and fake her death until the novel's end]].
* TheBusCameBack: Margo and Smithback return for the first time since Literature/Reliquary and Literature/CabinetOfCuriosities.
* MagnificentBastard: Diogones almost seems like a prototypical [[TheDarkKnightSaga Joker]] with how he plans his murder sprees [[spoiler: and manages to trick his brother into thinking revenge is his real goal]].
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''Dance Of Death'' is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child first published in 2005. It is part of their informal [[Literature/AgentPendergast Agent Pendergast series]].
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''Dance Of Death'' is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child first published in 2005. It is part of their informal [[Literature/AgentPendergast Agent Pendergast series]].
