Alban was tall and fit, with strong Nordic features. Standing at six feet, three inches in height, he had the pale angular face, high-domed forehead and light blond hair characteristic of the Pendergast family, but with his mother's sculptured lips and blue-violet eyes. He and his twin were the products of generations of genetic experiments conducted by the Covenant to produce the ideal Nazi soldier to establish and maintain the Fourth Reich. The experiments swapped the genetic material between the embryos of twins—the best of both embryos was transferred exclusively to one embryo, while the inferior genes of both were moved to the other.
His twin, meanwhile, was relegated to menial field labor, known only by the number "Forty-Seven" and safely serving as a live "farm" of spare parts should the genetically superior Alban become injured. As a "beta test" of the program's success, Alban, using the name "Alban Lorimer," was tasked with committing a series of murders in New York designed to pit him against the forensic and investigative skills of his father.
When Forty-Seven escaped and found Pendergast, Alban's test parameters were adapted to include kidnapping his brother from Pendergast's Riverside Drive mansion. Alban escaped when Pendergast could not bring himself to kill his own son, disappearing into the Amazon rain forest.
Alban spent time recovering from his injuries in the rain forest with a small tribe of Indians while planning his revenge against his father. At some point, he traveled to Rio, using his skills of disguise and deception to disappear into one of its most notorious favelas, the " City of Angels ," led by the gangster O Punho—"The Fist"—and his posse.
Alban acquired the identity and residence of a lone drifter, taking on the persona of a twenty-one-year-old Brazilian citizen named Adler and continuing his plans.
He began researching the Pendergast family history, ultimately coming across Hezekiah Pendergast —his own great-great--great-grandfather. Hezekiah had devised and marketed a famous elixir in the late nineteenth century that helped restore the family's fortunes, though it was later exposed as an addictive and lethal blend of toxic ingredients responsible for several painful, wasting deaths, including Hezekiah's own wife.
Alban traveled to the United States to meet with the descendant of two of Hezekiah's victims: John Barbeaux , whose great-grandparents had both not only succumbed to the elixir, but passed its effects on genetically to their descendents, causing seemingly random deaths in Barbeaux's family—including his only son. Alban revealed the history of the elixir and the cause of what Barbeaux's family had always called "the family affliction," and together they conspired to recreate Hezekiah's elixir and poison Pendergast himself with it.
After returning to the favela, Alban fell in love with a twenty-five-year-old woman named Danika Egland , known as the "Angel of the Favelas" for the way she fearlessly entered the notorious fortified slums to give away medicine, food and money, preaching education and independence.
They were drawn to each other, though she kept their relationship a secret from her family, who disapproved of her work in the favelas for fear of her safety.
She refused to live with him, but the couple soon learned she was pregnant, and wed in secret. Alban's history of order with the Covenant, meanwhile, began to manifest itself as he grew increasingly obsessed with taking over the leadership of the favela, believing he could turn it from a disorganized slum led by thugs into a lean, efficient organized operation, and he soon had a clever plan to stage a coup.
He is generally described as being stoically aloof and eccentric, though his ineffable politeness and unerring intellect imbue him with an irresistible charm or enigmatic sense of danger if the occasion should call for it. Being a polymath Pendergast is well-learned in many subjects, he converses easily with doctors, scientists, intellectuals, vagabonds, highly specialized masters of specific disciplines, and people of a wide variety of language and culture alike.
He is a master of psychological manipulation, disguise, and improvisation, and a polyglot, demonstrating mastery of French, Italian, Latin, Greek, Portuguese and Cantonese; he is also semi-fluent in Mandarin and has some knowledge of Japanese. Pendergast appreciates the finer things in life, including expensive cuisine and wines.
He has a great distaste for opera. His interests encompass a wide variety of vastly differing walks of life, yet all focus on the enlightenment of the human mind, body, and soul. He spent a year in Tibet studying the deep meditative art of Chongg Ran, taught to him by the monks of the Gsalrig Chongg monastery. His weapons of choice are several custom handguns, including Les Baer and Wilson Combat models. He has also used a Colt Anaconda.
He is exceptionally skilled in close quarters combat as well. Pendergast maintains an apartment at The Dakota in New York City, and later inherited an internally renovated Beaux Arts mansion near Harlem from his great-granduncle following the events of The Cabinet of Curiosities. Though he is a scrupulously scientific man, he wears a sort of talisman or amulet on a chain, that consists of his own modified version of the Pendergast family crest: a lidless eye over two moons, one new and one full, with a phoenix rising the original featured a lion couchant.
Pendergast carries a variety of hidden tools, such as lock picks, flashlights of various sizes, test tubes, syringes, and forensic chemicals. In Relic , Pendergast worked closely with Lt. Pendergast remained in contact with D'Agosta after the case and the two became close friends. She acted as his assistant, and in return for her service he sent her to Philips-Exeter Academy to finish high school.
Thanks to Mike Decker's influence, the FBI has mostly taken a hands-off approach to Pendergast as his career progressed, allowing him to select his own assignments and shielding him from reprimand for all but the most grievous infractions. When Decker was murdered in his home during the events of Dance of Death , Howard Longstreet assumed the responsibility of protecting the controversial agent.
After inheriting his great-great-uncle Enoch Leng 's mansion following The Cabinet of Curiosities , Pendergast discovered a young girl living in the house. The girl, Constance Greene , had been adopted by Pendergast's uncle and used as a test subject for various life-extending compounds.
As a result, she barely aged for over years until Leng's death. Pendergast adopted Greene as his ward. She often helps him with research, as her long life has given her time to read extensively and become fluent in many languages.
Pendergast had a troubled relationship with his younger brother Diogenes. Diogenes is as brilliant as his older brother, but following a childhood accident that left him with brain damage and heterochromia, he took up a life of crime.
He reemerged in Brimstone and began a killing spree that ended with Diogenes framing his brother for murder. Pendergast was married to a woman named Helen prior to the events of Relic , but she was killed in a hunting accident in Africa. In the "Helen Trilogy" Fever Dream , Cold Vengeance , and Two Graves , Pendergast learned that her death was not an accident and followed a trail that eventually brought him to Helen, who was alive and in hiding.
He was reunited with her briefly before she was killed by the Covenant, and Pendergast later found out that he and Helen had twin boys, Alban and Tristram Two Graves. Pendergast's complicated relationship with Constance Greene reached a boiling point during what started as a simple freelance investigation into a stolen wine collection in Maine.
While celebrating the solving of the theft with an extremely rare bottle from the recovered collection, a moment of rare vulnerability led to a passionate kiss.
Pendergast quickly recovered, however, and retreated emotionally, prompting Constance to flee in angry humiliation as she realized the man she loved would never allow himself to requite her feelings. She returned to New York alone after Pendergast's apparent drowning and confined herself to the depths of the Riverside Mansion's subterranean basement.
When Pendergast refused to allow Longstreet to kill Diogenes to satisfy a blood oath sworn to Decker, Longstreet reluctantly agreed but renounced his protection of Pendergast's FBI career, declaring their relationship over.
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