Relic is a 1995 horror/techno-thriller novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, introducing FBI Special Agent Pendergast, and the first book in the Pendergast series. Set in the New York Museum of Natural History, it follows researcher Margo Green as she investigates a series of savage murders linked to a new exhibition
Not described in detail. a character just mentions that there’s a terrible smell in a room where people are trapped because they were so frightened they lost control of their bowels.