Douglas J Preston
Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
That thing is growing again. We must destroy it. The time to act is now... With these words begins Gideon Crew's latest, most dangerous, most high-stakes assignment yet. Failure will mean nothing short of the end of humankind on earth. Five years ago, the mysterious and inscrutable head of Effective Engineering Solutions, Eli Glinn, led a mission to recover a gigantic meteorite--the largest ever discovered--from a remote island off the coast of South...
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 14
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A long-buried family secret resurfaces when one of Aloysius Pendergast's most implacable enemies shows up on his doorstep as a murdered corpse. The mystery has all the hallmarks of the perfect murder, save for an enigmatic clue: a piece of turquoise lodged in the stomach of the deceased. The gem leads Pendergast to an abandoned mine on the shore of California's desolate Salton Sea, which in turn propels him on a journey of discovery deep into his...
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 19
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Appearing out of nowhere to horrify the quiet resort town of Sanibel Island, Florida, dozens of identical, ordinary-looking shoes float in on the tide and are washed up on the tropical beach--each one with a crudely severed human foot inside. Called away from vacation elsewhere in the state, Agent Pendergast reluctantly agrees to visit the crime scene--and, despite himself, is quickly drawn in by the incomprehensible puzzle. An early pathology report...
4) Two graves
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 12
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Special Agent Pendergast assists NYPD Lieutenant D'Agosta in the investigation of a number of killings that ultimately prove to be messages from his wife's kidnappers.
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground. Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy? Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land? Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of America's heartland. No one is safe.
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sequel to "Old Bones" finds FBI agent Corrie Swanson and Santa Fe archaeologist Nora Kelly investigating the mummified corpse of a long-dead victim who died in agony while holding a mysterious sixteenth-century gold cross.
7) Bloodless
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 20
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the evening of November 24, 1971, D. B. Cooper hijacked Flight 305?Portland to Seattle?with a fake bomb, collected a ransom of $200,000, and then parachuted from the rear of the plane, disappearing into the night?and into history. Fifty years later, Agent Pendergast takes on a bizarre and gruesome case: in the ghost-haunted city of Savannah, Georgia, bodies are found with no blood left in their veins?sowing panic and reviving whispered tales of...
8) Diablo Mesa
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lucas Tappan, a wealthy and eccentric billionaire and founder of Icarus Space Systems, approaches the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute with an outlandish proposal--to finance a careful, scientific excavation of the Roswell Incident site, where a UFO is alleged to have crashed in 1947. A skeptical Nora Kelly, to her great annoyance, is tasked with the job. Nora's excavation immediately uncovers two murder victims buried at the site, faces and hands...
9) White fire
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 13
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Special Agent Pendergast investigates after a woman is thrown in jail by the owners of a spa resort located on the site of unsolved murders.
10) The lost island
Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 3
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After being tasked with stealing a page from a priceless, ancient book, brilliant scientist and master thief Gideon Crew discovers a hidden map on the back of the book's parchment, in the third novel of the series following Gideon's Corpse.
11) Fever dream
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 10
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
With Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta's assistance, Pendergast embarks on a quest to uncover the mystery of his wife's murder. As he probes more deeply into the riddle--the answer to which is revealed in a night of shocking violence, deep in the Louisiana bayou--he finds himself faced with an even greater question: who was the woman he married?
12) Crimson shore
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 15
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"#1 bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child return with their next blockbuster Pendergast novel"--
13) Gideon's corpse
Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A top nuclear scientist turns homicidal, taking an innocent family hostage at gunpoint. Gideon Crew, a colleague of the scientist at Los Alamos, is called in to talk the man down. But the standoff ends in an explosion of violence. When the authorities discover the scientist's body is intensely radioactive, and that he had recently embraced Islamic extremism, all hell breaks loose.
14) Old bones
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome Historian, Guy Porter, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Guy tells his story--one involving the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party stumbled out of the California mountains, replete with...
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 8
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
16) Cold vengeance
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 11
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Seeking revenge after his wife Helen is murdered, Special Agent Pendergast chases the killers from Scotland to New York City and into the bayous of Louisiana and discovers that Helen may have been a collaborator in her own death.
17) Brimstone
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
[2016?], c2004
Edition
1st oversize mass market ed.
Language
English
Description
A body is found in the attic of a fabulous Long Island estate. There is a claw print scorched into the wall, and the stench of sulfur chokes the air. When FBI Special Agent Pendergast investigates the gruesome crime, he discovers that thirty years ago four men conjured something unspeakable. Has the devil come to claim his due? Some things can't be undone.
18) Huesos olvidados
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novel volume 1
Publisher
Plaza e Janés
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
Crimen, canibalismo, una expedición maldita y un misterio enterrado en el tiempo. Preston & Child inauguran una irresistible serie que mezcla arqueología, historia, crimen y suspense. La joven arqueóloga Nora Kelly recibe una extraordinaria propuesta: liderar un equipo en busca del llamado Campamento perdido de la expedición Donner. Su misterio se remonta a 1847, cuando un grupo de pioneros quedó atrapado en las montañas de California y se perdió...
Author
Publisher
GCP
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"What's it like to be the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber that's been sealed for thousands of years? What horrifying secret was found among the prehistoric ruins of the American Southwest? Who really was the infamous the Monster of Florence? Douglas Preston's journalistic explorations have taken him from the haunted country of Italy to the jungles of Honduras. He was granted exclusive journalistic access to the largest tomb in Egypt's Valley...
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 7
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014.
Edition
First oversize mass market edition.
Language
English
Description
Psychotic killer Diogenes faces down his incarcerated FBI agent brother, while the Museum of Natural History reopens a long-closed tomb exhibit, a decision that coincides with a series of murders and sparks rumors about an ancient curse.