Douglas Preston, Author . Forge $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1768-1
Near the start of this solid thriller from bestseller Preston, the U.S. president's science adviser asks former CIA operative Wyman Ford, last seen in 2008's Blasphemy
, to look into the sudden appearance of radioactive gemstones, in...
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Douglas Preston. Grand Central, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4555-4000-6
Novelist Preston’s irresistibly gripping account of his experiences as part of the expedition to locate an ancient city in the Honduran mountains reads like a fairy tale minus the myth. “There was once a great city in the mountains,” he writes, “stru
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Douglas Preston, read by Bill Mumy. Hachette Audio, unabridged, 10 CDs, 10.5 hrs., $35 ISBN 978-1-4789-6452-0
Mumy’s lovely, low-key narrative style gives him ample scope to intensify the many magical, fearful, exciting, painful, intriguing, and panicky moments in this hair-raising adventure tale about the author’s recent expedition to locate an ancient...
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Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Grand Central, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4555-3694-8
Why would a killer decapitate his victims? That’s one of the puzzles Preston and Child pose for their eccentric FBI agent with expensive tastes, Aloysius Pendergast, and his loyal NYPD ally,
Lt. Cmdr. Vincent D’Agosta, in the lackluster 17th entry...
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Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Grand Central, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4555-3691-7
A melodramatic plot full of improbable developments mars Preston and Child’s 16th thriller featuring FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast (after 2015’s Crimson Shore). Pendergast is believed dead after he was seriously wounded and fell into the sea off...
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Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Grand Central, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-446-56437-3
Fans of Preston and Child’s bestselling Aloysius Pendergast novels (Relic, etc.) may want to take a pass on the unremarkable second Gideon Crew thriller (after 2011’s Gideon’s Sword), whose lead could be cut-and-pasted into any number of books by...
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Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Grand Central, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-446-56432-8
Preston and Child's first in a new thriller series falls short of their usual high standard. In 1996, eight years after 12-year-old Gideon Crew saw his father, an employee of the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command, fatally shot...
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Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, read by John Glover. Hachette Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 10 hrs., $34.98 ISBN 978-1-60024-997-6
John Glover's hard-edged, slightly sinister voice (familiar to fans of television's Smallville) sustains Preston and Child's entertaining but slight thriller. In this installment, Gideon Crew, whom Glover imbues with more depth and humanity than the
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Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, read by Scott Brick. Hachette Audio, , unabridged, 13 CDs, 16 hrs., $24.98 ISBN 978-1-61113-874-0
When a Kansas farming community is beset by a series of unusual murders, eccentric FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast finds himself navigating cornfields and dealing with hostile local cops in order to unmask the killer in this fourth installment
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Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, read by Rene Auberjonois, Hachette Audio, unabridged, 12 CDs, 14 hrs., $44.98 ISBN 978-1-60788-194-0
Rene Auberjonois continues his skilled narration of Preston and Child's suspense series featuring FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast. Twelve years ago, Pendergast's beloved wife, Helen, was killed by a lion in Africa, and her bizarre death still...
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Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Grand Central, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4555-2592-8
At the start of Preston and Child’s solid 15th thriller featuring FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast (after 2014’s Blue Labyrinth), Pendergast, unusually for him, agrees to accept a private case. Someone broke into the lighthouse where sculptor Percival...
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Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, read
by Rene Auberjonois. Hachette Audio, unabridged, 9 CDs, 11 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-1-4789-6031-7
The 15th fantastic adventure of eccentric, brilliant Special FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast finds him and Constance Greene, his lovely young ward, leaving their Manhattan mansion for Exmouth, Mass., on a case unrelated to the agency—the theft of a...
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Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Grand Central, $27 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4555-2586-7
Preston and Child's exciting fourth Gideon Crew novel (after 2014's The Lost Island) satisfactorily resolves the cliffhanger with which they ended their 2000 thriller, The Ice Limit. Previously, eccentric billionaire Palmer Lloyd learned that the...
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Douglas Preston. Forge, $29.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1770-4
Bestseller Preston (coauthor of the Agent Pendergast series) spins a creepy and creative variation on Jurassic Park. In the near future, advances in gene editing have led to breakthroughs in de-extinction, bringing prehistoric mammals back to life...
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Douglas Preston. Grand Central, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5387-4122-1
Bestseller Preston (The Lost City of the Monkey God), who coauthors the Aloysius Pendergast series with Lincoln Child, shares the inspirations for many of those procedurals in this gripping compendium of his journalistic work, much of which was...
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Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Grand Central, $29 (368p) ISBN 978-1-5387-3675-3
Bestsellers Preston and Child go full X-Files in their excellent third thriller featuring archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI agent Corrie Swanson (after 2021’s The Scorpion’s Tail). When Nora’s boss at the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute asks her to
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Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Grand Central, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-1-5387-6582-1
Why would two women, years apart, disrobe and burn themselves to death in the same New Mexican desert? That’s the question Preston and Child pose for forensic anthropologist Nora Kelly in the crackling sequel to Dead Mountain. After the skeletal...
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Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Grand Central, $30 (352p) ISBN 978-1-5387-6570-8
The tedious 22nd installment of Preston and Child’s series featuring paranormal FBI investigator Aloysius Pendergast (after The Cabinet of Dr. Leng) gets tangled in convoluted series lore. Pendergast has used a dimensional portal to follow his ward,
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Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Grand Central, $30 (416p) ISBN 978-1-5387-3677-7
Bestsellers Preston and Child’s middling 21st Pendergast novel (after 2021’s Bloodless) finds Aloysius X.L. Pendergast, an FBI agent whose cases tend to involve monsters and the paranormal, still bereft after his ward and love-interest, Constance...
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Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Grand Central, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-1-5387-3670-8
A prologue to Preston and Child’s disappointing 20th thriller featuring FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast (after 2020’s Crooked River) depicts the notorious unsolved 1971 plane hijacking by D.B. Cooper in the Pacific Northwest. In the present,...
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Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Grand Central, $29 (368p) ISBN 978-1-5387-4725-4
When more than a hundred shoes containing severed human feet wash ashore on Florida’s Sanibel Island in Preston and Child’s exciting 19th Pendergast novel (after 2018’s Verses for the Dead), eccentric FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast, who’s vacationing
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Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Grand Central, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-1-5387-4722-3
Archaeologist Nora Kelly takes center stage in this intriguing series launch from bestsellers Preston and Child (the Aloysius Pendergast series, in which Kelly’s been a supporting character). She is contacted by historian Clive Benton, who claims to
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Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Grand Central, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-1-5387-4720-9
The crimes under investigation in Preston and Child’s underwhelming 18th thriller featuring FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast (after 2018’s City of Endless Night) are tame by the bestselling authors’ usual standard. Walter Pickett, an FBI assistant...
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Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Grand Central, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-1-5387-4727-8
Bestsellers Preston and Child’s enjoyable sequel to 2019’s Old Bones takes FBI special agent Corrie Swanson, who studied forensic anthropology, to New Mexico after a mummified male corpse is found in a ghost town on federal land—and a trespasser...
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