Title: The Wheel of Darkness
Description: FBI Special Agent Pendergast is taking a break from work to take Constance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping to give her closure and a sense of the world that she's missed.  They head to Tibet, where Pendergast intensively trained in martial arts and spiritual studies. At a remote monastery, they learn that a rare and dangerous artifact the monks have been guarding for generations has been mysteriously stolen.  As a favor, Pendergast agrees to track and recover the relic.  A twisting trail of bloodshed leads Pendergast and Constance to the maiden voyage of the Britannia, the world's largest and most luxurious ocean liner---and to an Atlantic crossing fraught with terror.
Subjects: Ocean liners, Suspense, Aloysius Pendergast (Fictitious character), Government investigators, Monks, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Americans, Queen Victoria (Ship), Thriller, Archaeological thefts, Pendergast, Aloysius (Fictitious character), Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Fiction, thrillers, general, nyt:mass-market-paperback=2008-07-13, New York Times bestseller, China, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, suspense