Douglas J. Preston
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At age 12, Gideon Crew witnessed the brutal murder of his father. More than 20 years later, Gideon gets his revenge. But then a mysterious witness steps forward to confront Gideon on his crime---and offer him the chance of a lifetime"--Provided by publisher.
6) Thunderhead
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Archaeologist Nora Kelly discovers unbelievable riches and inescapable death when she comes into possession of a mysterious letter written by her father, who vanished sixteen years earlier, in which he divulges the location of the legendary Quivira, the Anasazi Indians' lost city of gold.
7) Impact
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
CIA agent Wyman Ford is sent to Cambodia to locate the source of some radioactive gemstones--a mission that has links to a young woman's search for a meteorite she saw streak through the sky in Maine, and the murder of a researcher at the National Propulsion Facility who discovered gamma rays originating from Mars.
Author
Series
Pendergast novel volume 17
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When Grace Ozmian, the beautiful and reckless daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire, first goes missing, the NYPD assumes she has simply sped off on another wild adventure. Until the young woman's body is discovered in an abandoned warehouse in Queens, the head nowhere to be found. Lieutenant CDS Vincent D'Agosta quickly takes the lead. He knows his investigation will attract fierce scrutiny, so D'Agosta is delighted when FBI Special Agent A.X.L....
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
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...
12) The pharaoh key
Author
Series
Gideon Crew novel volume 5
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief, intrepid adventurer--is shocked when his former employer, Eli Glinn, vanishes without a trace, and Glinn's high-tech lab Effective Engineering Solutions shuts down seemingly overnight. Fresh off a diagnosis that gives him only months to live, Crew is contacted by one of his former coworkers at EES, Manuel Garza, who has a bead on one final treasure hinted at in EES's final case, the long-awaited translation...
Author
Series
Gideon Crew novel volume 3
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
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.
15) Diablo Mesa
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novel volume 3
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child continue with the wildly popular series featuring archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. 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...
16) Reliquary
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
A sequel to "The Relic" which has NYPD Lt. D'Agosta, Natural History Museum curator Margo Green, and a host of returning characters involved in a new investigation spurred by the discovery of the decaptiated remains of a New York socialite and a sharp increase in the decapitation rate among the city's underground homeless.
Author
Series
Pendergast novel volume 21
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Constance Greene has found a way back to the place of her origins, New York City in the late 1800s. She sets off on a quest to prevent the events that lead to the deaths of her sister and brother. But Manhattan's most infamous serial killer, Dr. Enoch Leng, lies in wait, ready to strike at the slightest provocation. Meanwhile, in contemporary New York, Special Agent Pendergast searches for a way to reunite with Constance. Will he discover a way back...
18) Cold vengeance
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Special Agent Pendergast, on a quest to avenge the death of his wife Helen, uncovers a conspiracy that goes back generations, and must face the possibility that she was a collaborator in her own murder.