Douglas Preston
Douglas Preston was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1956, and grew up in the deadly boring suburb of Wellesley. Following a distinguished career at a private nursery school--he was almost immediately expelled--he attended public schools and the Cambridge School of Weston. Notable events in his early life included the loss of a fingertip at the age of three to a bicycle; the loss of his two front teeth to his brother Richard's fist; and various broken bones, also incurred in dust-ups with Richard. (Richard went on to write The Hot Zone and The Cobra Event, which tells you all you need to know about what it was like to grow up with him as a brother.)As they grew up, Doug, Richard, and their little brother David roamed the quiet suburbs of Wellesley, terrorizing the natives with home-made rockets and incendiary devices mail-ordered from the backs of comic books or concocted from chemistry sets. With a friend they once attempted to fly a rocket into Wellesley Square; the rocket malfunctioned and nearly killed a man mowing his lawn. They were local celebrities, often appearing in the "Police Notes" section of The Wellesley Townsman. It is a miracle they survived childhood intact.After unaccountably being rejected by Stanford University (a pox on it), Preston attended Pomona College in Claremont, California, where he studied mathematics, biology, physics, anthropology, chemistry, geology, and astronomy before settling down to English literature. After graduating, Preston began his career at the American Museum of Natural History in New York as an editor, writer, and eventually manager of publications. (Preston also taught writing at Princeton University and was managing editor of Curator.) His eight-year stint at the Museum resulted in the non-fiction book, Dinosaurs in the Attic, edited by a rising young star at St. Martin's Press, a polymath by the name of Lincoln Child. During this period, Preston gave Child a midnight tour of the museum, and in the darkened Hall of Late Dinosaurs, under a looming T. Rex, Child turned to Preston and said: "This would make the perfect setting for a thriller!" That thriller would, of course, be Relic.In 1986, Douglas Preston piled everything he owned into the back of a Subaru and moved from New York City to Santa Fe to write full time, following the advice of S. J. Perelman that "the dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he's given the freedom to starve anywhere." After the requisite period of penury, Preston achieved a small success with the publication of Cities of Gold, a non-fiction book about Coronado's search for the legendary Seven Cities of Cibola. To research the book, Preston and a friend retraced on horseback 1,000 miles of Coronado's route across Arizona and New Mexico, packing their supplies and sleeping under the stars--nearly killing themselves in the process. Since then he has published several more non-fiction books on the history of the American Southwest, Talking to the Ground and The Royal Road, as well as a novel entitled Jennie. In the early 1990s Preston and Child teamed up to write suspense novels; Relic was the first, followed by several others, including Riptide and Thunderhead. Relic was released as a motion picture by Paramount in 1997. Other films are under development at Hollywood studios. Preston and Child live 500 miles apart and write their books together via telephone, fax, and the Internet.Preston and his brother Richard are currently producing a television miniseries for ABC and Mandalay Entertainment, to be aired in the spring of 2000, if all goes well, which in Hollywood is rarely the case.Preston continues a magazine writing career by contributing regularly to The New Yorker magazine. He has also written for National Geographic, Natural History, Smithsonisan, Harper's,and Travel & Leisure,among others.http://us.macmillan.com/author/dougla...
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Douglas Preston
A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle.
Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God-but then committed suicide without revealing its location.
Three quarters of a century later, bestselling author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a groundbreaking new quest. In 2012 he climbed aboard a rickety, single-engine plane carrying the machine that would change everything: lidar, a highly advanced, classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. In an unexplored valley ringed by steep mountains, that flight revealed the unmistakable image of a sprawling metropolis, tantalizing evidence of not just an undiscovered city but an enigmatic, lost civilization.
Venturing into this raw, treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful wilderness to confirm the discovery, Preston and the team battled torrential rains, quickmud, disease-carrying insects, jaguars, and deadly snakes. But it wasn't until they returned that tragedy struck: Preston and others found they had contracted in the ruins a horrifying, sometimes lethal-and incurable-disease.
Suspenseful and shocking, filled with colorful history, hair-raising adventure, and dramatic twists of fortune, THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD is the absolutely true, eyewitness account of one of the great discoveries of the twenty-first century.
The Pharaoh Key (Gideon Crew #5)
Douglas Preston
"I just want to be crystal clear about this: if it has value, we're gonna steal it. Are you with me?"
Effective Engineering Solutions has been inexplicably shut down and the head of the company, Eli Glinn, has all but vanished. Fresh off a diagnosis that gives him only months to live, Gideon Crew is contacted by one of his coworkers at EES, Manuel Garza, who tells him the two have mere hours to collect their belongings before the office closes forever. After years of dedicated service and several high-risk missions, theirs seems like the most ignoble of terminations-until Gideon and Garza happen upon an incredible discovery. After centuries of silence, a code-breaking machine at EES has cracked the long-awaited translation of a centuries-old stone tablet, the Phaistos Disc, that dates back to an otherwise completely unknown, ancient civilization. The mysteries of the message itself hint at incredible treasures, and perhaps even a world-altering secret. No one remains at EES to take on this most remarkable mission but Gideon and Garza. The two agree to solve the mystery of the disc's message and split the spoils: the perfect parting gift their employer doesn't know he has given. What lies at the end of the trail may save Gideon's life-or bring it to a sudden, shocking close. As Gideon and Garza soon discover, some missions are more dangerous than others. But as Gideon has proved again and again, there's no such thing as too great a risk when you're living on borrowed time.
Blasphemy (Wyman Ford, #2)
Douglas Preston
The world's biggest supercollider, locked in an Arizona mountain, was built to reveal the secrets of the very moment of creation: the Big Bang itself.
The Torus is the most expensive machine ever created by humankind, run by the world's most powerful supercomputer. It is the brainchild of Nobel Laureate William North Hazelius. Will the Torus divulge the mysteries of the creation of the universe? Or will it, as some predict, suck the earth into a mini black hole? Or is the Torus a Satanic attempt, as a powerful televangelist decries, to challenge God Almighty on the very throne of Heaven?
Twelve scientists under the leadership of Hazelius are sent to the remote mountain to turn it on, and what they discover must be hidden from the world at all costs. Wyman Ford, ex-monk and CIA operative, is tapped to wrest their secret, a secret that will either destroy the world…or save it.
The countdown begins…
Dead Mountain (Nora Kelly, #4)
Douglas Preston
#1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child return in the latest installment of the bestselling series featuring renowned archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, where a fateful trip to New Mexico uncovers a case that may prove impossible to solve.
In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their last campsite, searchers found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee barefoot to certain death in a blizzard. Despite a diligent search, only six bodies were found, two violently crushed and inexplicably missing body parts. The case, given the code name “Dead Mountain” by the FBI, was never solved.
Now, two more bodies from the lost expedition are unexpectedly discovered in a cave, one a grisly suicide. Young FBI Agent Corrie Swanson teams up with archaeologist Nora Kelly to investigate what really happened on that fateful trip fifteen years ago—and to find the ninth victim. But their search awakens a long-slumbering evil, which pursues Corrie and Nora with a vengeance, determined to prevent the final missing corpse from ever coming to light.
Crooked River (Pendergast, #19)
Douglas Preston
#1 New York Times bestselling authors Doug Preston and Lincoln Child return with their next blockbuster Pendergast novel as he and Junior Agent Coldmoon race to uncover the mystery of several blue-shoe-clad severed feet found floating in the Atlantic. Dozens of identical blue shoes are found in the ocean off the southwestern coast of Florida, all with a severed human foot inside, all exhibiting unmistakable signs of violence. They appear out of nowhere one day, floating in on the tide. Called off the tarmac from his return flight back to New York City, Pendergast reluctantly arrives on Captiva Island and is quickly drawn into the mystery. A preliminary pathology report indicates the feet were wrenched from their bodies in the crudest of ways. As the days continue, more wash in until the number tops one hundred. Soon, Pendergast and his partner, junior agent Coldmoon find themselves squaring off against an adversary more powerful and deadly than they've ever encountered.
Riptide - Mörderische Flut
Douglas Preston
Ragged Island vor der Küste des US-Staates Maine ist ein unheimlicher Ort: Seit der englische Pirat Edward Ockham hier vor drei Jahrhunderten einen sagenhaften Schatz vergraben hat, scheitern alle Versuche, der Beute habhaft zu werden - das Gold ist in einem mit Meerwasser gefluteten Schacht jedem Zugriff entzogen, und mysteriöse Unglückfälle fordern das Leben unschuldiger Neugieriger wie professioneller Schatzsucher. Selbst die im Laufe der Zeit immer raffinierter werdenden technischen Hilfsmittel versagen regelmäßig, denn der Baumeister, der Ockhams Schatzkammer baute, war eine grausames Genie.
Erst als die geheimen Aufzeichnungen des Baumeisters entdeckt werden, scheint der Schatz in greifbare Nähe zu rücken. Während Computerspezialisten beginnen, den uralten Schriftcode zu knacken, rückt die Bergungsgesellschaft Thalassa auf die Insel aus, um den Schatz zu heben. Mit dabei ist Malin Hatch, der die Insel von seinem Vater geerbt hat und dort als kleiner Junge bei einem tragischen Unfall seinen Bruder verlor.
Die mit modernstem High-Tech-Gerät ausgerüstete Expedition von Ingenieuren und Historikern beginnt unter der Führung des charismatischen Kapitän Neidelmann, der Insel ihr düsteres Geheimnis zu entreißen. Schritt für Schritt kommen die Wissenschaftler und Techniker ihrem Ziel näher - doch dann beginnt Ockhams Schatzgrube zurückzuschlagen...
City of Endless Night (Pendergast, #17)
Douglas Preston
In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Special Agent Pendergast must stop a serial killer who is terrorizing New York City with a trail of headless victims.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. Pendergast shows up at the crime scene assigned to the case. "I feel rather like Brer Rabbit being thrown into the briar patch," Pendergast tells D'Agosta, "because I have found you here, in charge. Just like when we first met, back at the Museum of Natural History."But neither Pendergast nor D'Agosta are prepared for what lies ahead. A diabolical presence is haunting the greater metropolitan area, and Grace Ozmian was only the first of many victims to be murdered . . . and decapitated. Worse still, there's something unique to the city itself that has attracted the evil eye of the killer.As mass hysteria sets in, Pendergast and D'Agosta find themselves in the crosshairs of an opponent who has threatened the very lifeblood of the city. It'll take all of Pendergast's skill to unmask this most dangerous foe-let alone survive to tell the tale.
Blue Labyrinth (Pendergast, #14)
Douglas Preston
Special Agent Pendergast-one of the most original, compelling characters in all of contemporary fiction-returns in Preston and Child's new exhilarating novel Blue Labyrinth.
A long-buried family secret has come back to haunt Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast...
It begins with murder. One of Pendergast's most implacable, most feared enemies is found on his doorstep, dead. Pendergast has no idea who is responsible for the killing, or why the body was brought to his home. The mystery has all the hallmarks of the perfect crime, 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 Salton Sea, which in turn propels him on a journey of discovery deep into his own family's sinister past.
But Pendergast learns there is more at work than a ghastly episode of family history: he is being stalked by a subtle killer bent on vengeance over an ancient transgression. And he soon becomes caught in a wickedly clever plot, which leaves him stricken in mind and body, and propels him toward a reckoning beyond anything he could ever have imagined...
Old Bones (Nora Kelly, #1)
Douglas Preston
The first in the groundbreaking Nora Kelly series from #1 bestselling authors Preston & Child blends the legend of the Donner party with a riveting suspense tale, taking the dynamic duo's work to new heights.
Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome Historian, Clive Benton, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Clive 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 tales of courage, resourcefulness, bad luck, murder, barbarism--and, finally, starvation and cannibalism.Captivated by the Donner Party, Nora agrees and they venture into the Sierra Nevada in search of the camp. Quickly, they learn that the discovery of the missing starvation camp is just the tip of the iceberg--and that the real truth behind those long-dead pioneers is not only far more complex and surprising than they could have imagined...but it is one that puts them both in mortal danger from a very real, present-day threat in which the search for the lost party, and its fabled fortune in gold, are merely means to a horrifying end.
The Monster of Florence
Douglas Preston
In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil) and Erik Larson (The Devil in the White City), New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence, Italy.
In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to move his family to Italy. Then he discovered that the olive grove in front of their 14th century farmhouse had been the scene of the most infamous double-murders in Italian history, committed by a serial killer known as the Monster of Florence. Preston, intrigued, meets Italian investigative journalist Mario Spezi to learn more.
This is the true story of their search for—and identification of—the man they believe committed the crimes, and their chilling interview with him. And then, in a strange twist of fate, Preston and Spezi themselves become targets of the police investigation. Preston has his phone tapped, is interrogated, and told to leave the country. Spezi fares worse: he is thrown into Italy's grim Capanne prison, accused of being the Monster of Florence himself. Like one of Preston's thrillers, The Monster of Florence, tells a remarkable and harrowing story involving murder, mutilation, and suicide—and at the center of it, Preston and Spezi, caught in a bizarre prosecutorial vendetta.
The Wheel of Darkness (Pendergast, #8)
Douglas Preston
At a remote monastery in Tibet, a rare and dangerous artifact mysteriously disappears. Aloysius Pendergast agrees to take up the search that leads him and Constance to the maiden voyage of the Britannia--and to an Atlantic crossing fraught with terror.
Thunderhead (Nora Kelly, #0A)
Douglas Preston
Nora Kelly, a young archaeologist in Santa Fe, receives a letter written sixteen years ago, yet mysteriously mailed only recently. In it her father, long believed dead, hints at a fantastic discovery that will make him famous and rich---the lost city of an ancient civilization that suddenly vanished a thousand years ago. Now Nora is leading an expedition into a harsh, remote corner of Utah's canyon country. Searching for her father and his glory, Nora begins to unravel the greatest riddle of American archeology. but what she unearths will be the newest of horrors...
Dance of Death (Pendergast, #6; Diogenes, #2)
Douglas Preston
Two brothers on opposite sides of the law battle it out on the streets of New York in this chill-inducing thriller, a follow-up to BRIMSTONE. — As the previous installment came to a close, vicious dogs and armed men surrounded FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast and his demise seemed certain. Nevertheless, he did leave behind a legacy: a letter for his friend, NYPD Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta. Its contents ask D'Agosta to assume the responsibility of pursuing Pendergast's younger brother Diogenes, an insane and vengeful genius who has sworn to commit the perfect crime on January 28 -- which is now only one week away.
The Obsidian Chamber (Pendergast, #16)
Douglas Preston
A TRAGIC DISAPPEARANCE
After a harrowing, otherworldly confrontation on the shores of Exmouth, Massachussetts, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is missing, presumed dead.
A SHOCKING RETURN
Sick with grief, Pendergast's ward, Constance, retreats to her chambers beneath the family mansion at 891 Riverside Drive--only to be taken captive by a shadowy figure from the past.
AN INTERNATIONAL MANHUNT
Proctor, Pendergast's longtime bodyguard, springs to action, chasing Constance's kidnapper through cities, across oceans, and into wastelands unknown.
BUT IN A WORLD OF BLACK AND WHITE, NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS
And by the time Proctor discovers the truth, a terrifying engine has stirred-and it may already be too late . . .
Gideon's Sword (Gideon Crew, #1)
Douglas Preston
Introducing Gideon trickster, prodigy, master thief. At twelve, Gideon Crew witnessed his father, a world-class mathematician, accused of treason and gunned down. At twenty-four, summoned to his dying mother's bedside, Gideon learned the truth that his His father was framed and deliberately slaughtered. With her last breath, she begged her son to avenge him. Now, with a new purpose in his life, Gideon crafts a one-time mission of vengeance, aimed at the perpetrator of his father's destruction. His plan is meticulous, spectacular, and successful. But from the shadows, someone is watching. A very powerful someone, who is impressed by Gideon's special skills.
Someone who has need of just such a renegade. For Gideon, this operation may be only the beginning . . .
The Cabinet of Dr. Leng (Pendergast, #21)
Douglas Preston
Preston & Child continue their #1 bestselling series featuring FBI Special Agent Pendergast and Constance Greene, as they cross paths with New York’s deadliest serial Pendergast’s own ancestor…and now his greatest foe.
AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY
Astoundingly, Constance has found a way back to the place of her New York City in the late 1800s. She leaps at the chance to return…although it means leaving the present forever.
A DESPERATE OPPORTUNITY
Constance sets off on a quest to prevent the events that lead to the deaths of her sister and brother. But along the road to redemption, Manhattan’s most infamous serial killer, Dr. Enoch Leng, lies in wait, ready to strike at the slightest provocation.
UNIMAGINABLE ODDS
Meanwhile, in contemporary New York, Pendergast feverishly searches for a way to reunite with Constance—but will he discover a way back to her before it’s too late?
Beyond the Ice Limit (Gideon Crew, #4; Ice Limit, #2)
Douglas Preston
Warning: BEYOND THE ICE LIMIT is the sequel to THE ICE LIMIT. While BEYOND is a stand-alone novel, we want to warn potential readers that the copy below contains serious spoilers for THE ICE LIMIT, for those who wish to read that book first.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 America. The mission ended in disaster when their ship, the Rolvaag, foundered in a vicious storm in the Antarctic waters and broke apart, sinking-along with its unique cargo-to the ocean floor. One hundred and eight crew members perished, and Eli Glinn was left paralyzed.But this was not all. The tragedy revealed something truly terrifying: the meteorite they tried to retrieve was not, in fact, simply a rock. Instead, it was a complex organism from the deep reaches of space.Now, that organism has implanted itself in the sea bed two miles below the surface-and it is growing. If it is not destroyed, the planet will be doomed. There is only one hope: for Glinn and his team to annihilate it, a task which requires Gideon's expertise with nuclear weapons. But as Gideon and his colleagues soon discover, the "meteorite" has a mind of its own-and it has no intention of going quietly...
Impact (Wyman Ford, #3)
Douglas Preston
Wyman Ford is tapped for a secret expedition to Cambodia... to locate the source of strangely beautiful gemstones that do not appear to be of this world.A brilliant meteor lights up the Maine coast... and two young women borrow a boat and set out for a distant island to find the impact crater.A scientist at the National Propulsion Facility discovers an inexplicable source of gamma rays in the outer Solar System. He is found decapitated, the data missing.High resolution NASA images reveal an unnatural feature hidden in the depths of a crater on Mars... and it appears to have been activated.Sixty hours and counting.
Gideon's Corpse (Gideon Crew #2)
Douglas Preston
A top nuclear scientist goes mad and takes an innocent family hostage at gunpoint, killing one and causing a massive standoff. A plume of radiation above New York City leads to a warehouse where, it seems, a powerful nuclear bomb was assembled just hours before. Sifting through the evidence, authorities determine that the unthinkable is about to happen. In ten days, a major American city will be vaporized by a terrorist attack.
The Lost Island (Gideon Crew, #3)
Douglas Preston
Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief--is living on borrowed time. When his mysterious employer, Eli Glinn, gives him an eyebrow-raising mission, he has no reason to refuse. Gideon's task: steal a page from the priceless Book of Kells, now on display in New York City and protected by unbreakable security. Accomplishing the impossible, Gideon steals the parchment--only to learn that hidden beneath the gorgeously illuminated image is a treasure map dating back to the time of the ancient Greeks. As they ponder the strange map, they realize that the treasure it leads to is no ordinary fortune. It is something far more precious: an amazing discovery that could perhaps even save Gideon's life.Together with his new partner, Amy, Gideon follows a trail of cryptic clues to an unknown island in a remote corner of the Caribbean Sea. There, off the hostile and desolate Mosquito Coast, the pair realize the extraordinary treasure they are hunting conceals an even greater shock-a revelation so profound that it may benefit the entire human race . . . if Gideon and Amy can survive.
Diablo Mesa (Nora Kelly, #3)
Douglas Preston
From New York Times bestsellers Preston and Child, archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson are tasked with the mysterious deaths of two people found at a site where a UFO allegedly crashed decades before.
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 obliterated with acid to erase their identities. Special Agent Corrie Swanson is assigned to the case. As Nora’s excavation proceeds, uncovering things both bizarre and seemingly inexplicable, Corrie’s homicide investigation throws open a Pandora's box of espionage and violence, uncovering bloody traces of a powerful force that will stop at nothing to protect its secrets—and that threatens to engulf them all in an unimaginable fate.
Bloodless (Pendergast, #20)
Douglas Preston
In this latest installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling series, FBI agent Pendergast faces the strangest, most challenging puzzle of his career, when bodies—drained to the last drop of blood—begin appearing in Savannah, Georgia.
A FABULOUS HEIST
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.
A BRUTAL CRIME STEEPED IN LEGEND AND MALEVOLENCE
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 the infamous Savannah Vampire.
A CASE LIKE NO OTHER
As the mystery rises along with the body count, Pendergast and his partner, Agent Coldmoon, race to understand how—or if—these murders are connected to the only unsolved skyjacking in American history. Together, they uncover not just the answer…but an unearthly evil beyond all imagining.
Mount Dragon
Douglas Preston
Mount Dragon: an enigmatic research complex hidden in the vast desert of New Mexico. Guy Carson and Susana Cabeza de Vaca have come to Mount Dragon to work shoulder to shoulder with some of the greatest scientific minds on the planet. Led by visionary genius Brent Scopes, their secret goal is a medical breakthrough that promises to bring incalculable benefits to the human race. But while Scopes believes he is leading the way to a new world order, he may in fact be opening the door to mass human extinction. And when Guy and Susana attempt to stop him they find themselves locked in a frightening battle with Scopes, his henchmen, and the apocalyptic nightmare that science has unleashed .
The Scorpion's Tail (Nora Kelly, #2)
Douglas Preston
#1 bestselling authors Preston & Child return with the next book in a series featuring archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson.
Following OLD BONES, the second "happily anticipated" new thriller in Preston & Child's new series will once again feature Nora Kelly, archaeologist at the Santa Fe Archeological Institute, and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson investigating a new case that requires both their skills (Booklist).
After a shoot-out Swanson is involved in leaves a senior FBI agent gravely wounded, Corrie finds herself under investigation. Her supervisor assures her she's not to blame and the black mark on her record will be cleared in short order. But Corrie finds herself shake her overwhelming guilt.
As a distraction, she takes on a new case involving a fifty-year-old, mummified corpse discovered in a hidden enclave at High Lonesome, a long-abandoned New Mexico ghost town. Quickly out of her depth, she quickly realizes she needs the help of her foe-turned-ally, archaeologist Nora Kelly, who soon uncovers a startling truth: the deceased had been poisoned, and died clutching a priceless artifact from outside High Lonesome.
Verses for the Dead (Pendergast, #18)
Douglas Preston
Preston & Child return with their #1 bestselling series, confronting FBI Special Agent Pendergast with the one challenge he never expected: a partner.
After an overhaul of leadership at the FBI's New York field office, A. X. L. Pendergast is abruptly forced to accept an unthinkable condition of continued employment: the famously rogue agent must now work with a partner.
Pendergast and his new teammate, junior agent Coldmoon, are assigned to Miami Beach, where a rash of killings by a bloodthirsty psychopath is distinguished by a confounding M.O.: cutting out the hearts of his victims and leaving them--along with cryptic handwritten letters--at local gravestones, unconnected save for one bizarre detail: all belonged to women who committed suicide.
But the seeming lack of connection between the old suicides and the new murders is soon the least of Pendergast's worries. As he digs deeper, he realizes the brutal new crimes may be just the tip of the iceberg: a conspiracy of death that reaches back decades.
The Codex
Douglas Preston
The bestselling coauthor of such page-turning thrillers as Relic and The Cabinet of Curiosities , Douglas Preston now spins an unforgettable tale of greed, adventure, and betrayal in The Codex .
"Greetings from the dead," declares Maxwell Broadbent on the videotape he left behind after his mysterious disappearance. A notorious treasure hunter and tomb robber, Broadbent accumulated over a half a billion dollars' worth of priceless art, gems, and artifacts before vanishing---along with his entire collection---from his mansion in New Mexico.
At first, robbery is suspected, but the truth proves far stranger: As a final challenge to his three sons, Broadbent has buried himself and his treasure somewhere in the world, hidden away like an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. If the sons wish to claim their fabulous inheritance, they must find their father's carefully concealed tomb.
The race is on, but the three brothers are not the only ones competing for the treasure. This secret is so astounding it cannot be kept quiet for long. With half a billion dollars at stake, as well as an ancient Mayan codex that may hold a cure for cancer and other deadly diseases, others soon join the hunt---and some of them will stop at nothing to claim the grave goods.
Crimson Shore (Pendergast, #15)
Douglas Preston
A secret chamber. A mysterious shipwreck. A murder in the desolate salt marshes. A seemingly straightforward private case turns out to be much more complicated-and sinister-than Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast ever could have anticipated. Pendergast, together with his ward Constance Greene, travels to the quaint seaside village of Exmouth, Massachusetts, to investigate the theft of a priceless wine collection. But inside the wine cellar, they find something considerably more disturbing: a bricked-up niche that once held a crumbling skeleton.
Tyrannosaur Canyon (Wyman Ford, #1)
Douglas Preston
A stunning archaeological thriller from Douglas Preston, the New York Times bestselling co-author of Brimstone and Relic.
A moon rock missing for thirty years...
Five buckets of blood-soaked sand found in a New Mexico canyon...
A scientist with ambition enough to kill...
A monk who will redeem the world...
A dark agency with a deadly mission...
The greatest scientific discovery of all time...
What fire bolt from the galactic dark shattered the Earth eons ago, and now hides in that remote cleft in the southwest U.S. known as Tyrannosaur Canyon?
A fascinating novel from acclaimed bestselling author, hailed by Publishers Weekly as "better than Crichton."
Cold Vengeance (Pendergast, #11)
Douglas Preston
Devastated by the discovery that his wife, Helen, was murdered, Special Agent Pendergast must have retribution. But revenge is not simple. As he stalks his wife's betrayers-- a chase that takes him from the wild moors of Scotland to the bustling streets of New York and the darkest bayous of Louisiana-- he is also forced to dig further into Helen's past. And he is stunned to learn that Helen may have been a collaborator in her own murder.
Peeling back the layers of deception, Pendergast realizes that the conspiracy is deeper, goes back generations, and is more monstrous than he could have ever imagined-- and everything he's believed, everything he's trusted, everything he's understood . . . may be a horrific lie.
Two Graves (Pendergast, #12)
Douglas Preston
After his wife, Helen, is brazenly abducted before his eyes, Special Agent Pendergast furiously pursues the kidnappers, chasing them across the country and into Mexico. But then, things go terribly, tragically wrong; the kidnappers escape; and a shattered Pendergast retreats to his New York apartment and shuts out the world.
But when a string of bizarre murders erupts across several Manhattan hotels-perpetrated by a boy who seems to have an almost psychic ability to elude capture-NYPD Lieutenant D'Agosta asks his friend Pendergast for help. Reluctant at first, Pendergast soon discovers that the killings are a message from his wife's kidnappers. But why a message? And what does it mean?
When the kidnappers strike again at those closest to Pendergast, the FBI agent, filled anew with vengeful fury, sets out to track down and destroy those responsible. His journey takes him deep into the trackless forests of South America, where he ultimately finds himself face to face with an old evil that-rather than having been eradicated-is stirring anew... and with potentially world-altering consequences.
Confucius once "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, first dig two graves." Pendergast is about to learn the hard way just how true those words still ring.
White Fire (Pendergast, #13)
Douglas Preston
Special Agent Pendergast arrives at an exclusive Colorado ski resort to rescue his protégée, Corrie Swanson, from serious trouble with the law. His sudden appearance coincides with the first attack of a murderous arsonist who--with brutal precision--begins burning down multimillion-dollar mansions with the families locked inside. After springing Corrie from jail, Pendergast learns she made a discovery while examining the bones of several miners who were killed 150 years earlier by a rogue grizzly bear. Her finding is so astonishing that it, even more than the arsonist, threatens the resort's very existence.
Drawn deeper into the investigation, Pendergast uncovers a mysterious connection between the dead miners and a fabled, long-lost Sherlock Holmes story--one that might just offer the key to the modern day killings as well.
Now, with the ski resort snowed in and under savage attack--and Corrie's life suddenly in grave danger--Pendergast must solve the enigma of the past before the town of the present goes up in flames.
Cemetery Dance (Pendergast, #9)
Douglas Preston
Pendergast-the world's most enigmatic FBI Special Agent-returns to New York City to investigate a murderous cult.
William Smithback Jr., a prominent New York Times reporter, was killed in a brutal attack in his Upper West Side apartment. His wife, Nora Kelly, an archeologist at the Museum of Natural History, was injured as well. Multiple eyewitness identified the assailant as a neighbor n the building, Colin Fearing: a man who, by all reports, dead and buried ten days ago.
While Captain Laura Hayward leads the official investigation, Pendergast and Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta undertake their own private-and decidedly unorthodox-quest for the truth. Their serpentine journey takes them to an enclave of Manhattan they never imagined could exist: a secretive, reclusive cult of Obeah and voodoo which no outsiders have ever survived.
The Book of the Dead (Pendergast, #7; Diogenes, #3)
Douglas Preston
Can FBI Special Agent Pendergast stop a cursed Egyptian tomb from terrorizing New York City -- or will he stay trapped in a maximum security prison, punished for a murder he didn't commit?
An FBI agent, rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not commit...His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime...A young woman with an extrodinary past, on th edge of a violent breakdown...An ancient Egyptian tomb with an enigmatic curse, about to be unveiled at a celebrity-studded New York gala...Memento Mori
Still Life With Crows (Pendergast, #4)
Douglas Preston
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.
Brimstone (Pendergast, #5; Diogenes, #1)
Douglas Preston
Art critic Jeremy Grove is found dead, his face frozen in a mask of terror. His body temperature is grotesquely high; he is discovered in a room barricaded from the inside; the smell of brimstone is everywhere... and the unmistakable imprint of a claw is burned into the wall. As more bodies are discovered - their only connection the bizarre but identical manner of death - the world begins to wonder if the Devil has, in fact, come to collect his due.
Teaming with Police Officer Vincent D'Agosta (The Relic), Agent Pendergast is determined to solve this case that appears to defy everything except supernatural logic.
©2004 Douglas Preston (P)2011 Hachette
Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)
Douglas Preston
Hidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by those who walk the streets above. There lies the ultimate secret of the Museum Beast. When two grotesquely deformed skeletons are found deep in the mud off the Manhattan shoreline, museum curator Margo Green is called in to aid the investigation. Margo must once again team up with police lieutenant D'Agosta and FBI agent Pendergast, as well as the brilliant Dr. Frock, to try and solve the puzzle. The trail soon leads deep underground, where they will face the awakening of a slumbering nightmare.
The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast, #3; Nora Kelly, #0B)
Douglas Preston
In downtown Manhattan, a gruesome discovery has just been made-an underground charnel house containing the bones of dozens of murder victims. Research reveals that a serial killer was at work in New York's notorious Five Points neighborhood in the 1880s, bent on prolonging his lifespan by any means. When a newspaper story on the old murders appears to ignite a new series of horrifyingly similar killings, panic overtakes New York City. Now, FBI agent Pendergast, journalist Bill Smithback, and archaeologist Nora Kelly join forces to protect themselves from a vicious killer...before they become the next victims.
Relic (Pendergast, #1)
Douglas Preston
Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human...
But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders.
Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who—or what—is doing the killing. But can she do it in time to stop the massacre?
Fever Dream (Pendergast, #10)
Douglas Preston
Yesterday, Special Agent Pendergast still mourned the loss of his beloved wife, Helen, who died in a tragic accident in Africa twelve years ago. Today, he discovers she was murdered. Tomorrow, he will learn her most guarded secrets, leaving him to wonder: Who was the woman I married? Why was she murdered? And, above all . . . Who murdered her? FEVER DREAM Revenge is not sweet: It is essential.
The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder
Douglas Preston
Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God , presents jaw-dropping true stories of Egyptian burial chambers, prehistoric ruins, pirate treasure, bizarre crimes, and more…
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 of the Kings, broke the story of an extraordinary mass grave of animals killed by the asteroid impact that ended the Cretaceous period and caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, and explored what lay hidden in the booby-trapped Money Pit on Oak Island. When he hasn't been co-authoring bestselling thrillers featuring FBI Agent Pendergast, Preston has been writing about some of the world’s strangest and most dramatic mysteries.
The Lost Tomb brings together an astonishing and compelling collection of true stories about buried treasure, enigmatic murders, lost tombs, bizarre crimes, and other fascinating tales of the past and present.
The Lost City of the Monkey God
Douglas Preston
A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle.
Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God-but then committed suicide without revealing its location.Three quarters of a century later, author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a groundbreaking new quest. In 2012 he climbed aboard a rickety, single-engine plane carrying the machine that would change everything: lidar, a highly advanced, classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. In an unexplored valley ringed by steep mountains, that flight revealed the unmistakable image of a sprawling metropolis, tantalizing evidence of not just an undiscovered city but an enigmatic, lost civilization.Venturing into this raw, treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful wilderness to confirm the discovery, Preston and the team battled torrential rains, quickmud, disease-carrying insects, jaguars, and deadly snakes. But it wasn't until they returned that tragedy struck: Preston and others found they had contracted in the ruins a horrifying, sometimes lethal-and incurable-disease.
Extinction
Douglas Preston
Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand–acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammoths, Irish Elk, and giant ground sloths in their native habitat, brought back from extinction through the magic of genetic manipulation. When a billionaire's son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered in the Erebus back country by what is assumed to be a gang of eco-terrorists, Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash partners with county sheriff James Colcord to track down the perpetrators. As killings mount and the valley is evacuated, Cash and Colcord must confront an ancient, intelligent, and malevolent presence at Erebus, bent not on resurrection but on extinction.
De onderwereld
Douglas Preston
Ogenschijnlijk hebben de zaken niets met elkaar te maken: twee skeletten, gevonden in de modder van de Hudson, een knappe jonge vrouw die spoorloos is verdwenen en tientallen zwervers die wreed zijn vermoord.
Inspecteur Vincent D'Agosta start een onderzoek. Hij wordt bijgestaan door FBI-agent Pendergast én de twee briljante wetenschappers Dr. Frock en Margo Green van het Natural History Museum. Hun onderzoek voert hen naar de kilometerslange tunnels onder New York, die niet alleen het domein zijn van de verschoppelingen van de Amerikaanse maatschappij, maar ook van... ja, wat is het eigenlijk?
Recensie(s)
In de eindeloze ongebruikte tunnels onder Manhattan huizen duizenden zwervers. Als er een groot aantal zwervers in deze tunnels vermoord wordt, is dit voor de politie een groot probleem, vooral als het lijkt te gaan om rituele moorden: de hoofden van de lijken zijn verdwenen. Dankzij een FBI-agent die alleen in de onmetelijk diepe gangenstelsels afdaalt en twee wetenschappers van het Natural History Museum, krijgt de politie een idee van wat er aan de hand is en kunnen er maatregelen genomen worden. Er zijn veel verwijzingen naar het vorige boek van de schrijvers 'De vloek van het oerwoud'*, met zoveel essentiele informatie, dat dit hinderlijk is voor het begrip van dit boek. Desondanks slagen ze erin een huiveringwekkend beeld van ondergronds New York te schetsen. De daarin geplaatste intrige met een gevaarlijke drug die de persoonlijkheid en het uiterlijk verandert, is minder overtuigend. Het raakt de grens van wat een lezer als mogelijk zal accepteren en dus serieus nemen. De goede karakterisering van de hoofdpersonen toont aan dat de schrijvers heus wat in hun mars hebben. Interessant dus, en spannend, maar met enkele bedenkingen. Paperback met vrij kleine druk
Dinosaurs in the Attic: An Excursion into the American Museum of Natural History
Douglas Preston
Dinosaurs in the Attic is a chronicle of the expeditions, discoveries, and scientists behind the greatest natural history collection every assembled. Written by former Natural History columnist Douglas J. Preston, who worked at the American Museum of Natural History for seven years, this is a celebration of the best-known and best-loved museum in the United States.
Het duivelsplateau (Nora Kelly #3)
Douglas Preston
In het derde deel van waanzinnig populaire reeks met archeoloog Nora Kelly van #1-bestsellerauteurs Preston & Child ontdekken Nora Kelly en Corrie Swanson twee lijken op de plaats van een neergestorte ufo. Lucas Tappan, een rijke en excentrieke miljardair, en oprichter van Icarus Space Systems, benadert het archeologisch instituut van Santa Fe met een voorstel voor een opgraving – en een flinke donatie. Om de broodnodige publiciteit te regelen voor de geprivatiseerde ruimtereisindustrie wil hij een wetenschappelijke archeologische opgraving van het Roswellincident in 1947 financieren. Het instituut gaat akkoord en Nora Kelly krijgt, tegen haar zin in, de opdracht toegewezen. In plaats van bewijs van een neergestorte ufo vindt Nora meteen twee onbekende lijken begraven op de locatie. Omdat het gebied onder de jurisdictie van de FBI valt, wordt agent Corrie Swanson ook op de zaak gezet. De ontdekking opent uiteindelijk een doos van Pandora: mysteries, atoomspionage en een bedreiging die ieders leven op het spel zet.
Schorpioenenstaart (Nora Kelly #2)
Douglas Preston
Wanneer in een afgelegen spookstad in New Mexico een gemummificeerd lijk wordt gevonden, moet FBI-agent Corrie Swanson op onderzoek uit. Ze neemt archeoloog Nora Kelly mee om het lichaam bloot te leggen. Maar wat ze uiteindelijk aantreffen is even onverwacht als schokkend: de overledene is klaarblijkelijk in hevige pijn gestorven, in foetushouding met loslatende huid en een grimas van pure doodsangst op het gezicht.
Tussen de kleding van het lijk ontdekken ze een 16e-eeuws Spaans gouden kruis van onschatbare waarde. Wanneer ze eindelijk het lijk identificeren – en de bizarre doodsoorzaak achterhalen – openen Corrie en Nora een deur naar een angstaanjagende, geheime wereld vol oude schatten en moderne obsessies: een wereld die draait om een van de bepalendste, angstaanjagendste en transformerende momenten uit de geschiedenis van Amerika.
Het kabinet van dr. Leng (Pendergast, #21)
Douglas Preston
Special agent Pendergast is terug voor een nieuw avontuur. Reis door de tijd met Constance Greene om de beruchtste seriemoordenaar van het tijdperk te stoppen. Kan Pendergast haar op tijd redden?
Tegen alle verwachtingen in heeft Constance een manier gevonden om terug te reizen naar haar geboorteplek: New York City in de late negentiende eeuw. Ze begint aan een missie om de dood van haar broer en zus te voorkomen, en om de beruchte seriemoordenaar, dr. Enoch Leng, te stoppen voordat zijn snode experimenten zich ontplooien.
Ondertussen, in het huidige New York, zoekt FBI-agent Pendergast wanhopig naar een manier om zich te herenigen met Constance… Lukt het hem om een manier te vinden, voordat het te laat is?
Stad van de eeuwige nacht (Pendergast, #17)
Douglas Preston
FBI-detective Aloysius Pendergast is terug! Stad van de eeuwige nacht van Preston & Child, het zeventiende deel in de Pendergast-serie, is nog spannender dan De verborgen kamer.
Het begint met een fanatieke speurtocht naar Grace Ozmian, de vermiste dochter van een tech-miljardair. Eerst vermoedt de NYPD dat de mooie en roekeloze Grace, die geregeld in de tabloids staat, simpelweg weer in een wild avontuur verzeild is geraakt. Maar de zaak draait 180 graden als het lichaam van de jonge vrouw wordt gevonden in een verlaten pakhuis in Queens, en haar hoofd nergens te bekennen is. Luitenant Vincent D'Agosta en special agent Pendergast worden op de zaak gezet en al snel raken ze in het vizier van een tegenstander die het hart van de stad bedreigt. Pendergast zal alles op alles moeten zetten om deze gevaarlijke vijand te ontmaskeren – laat staan om het te overleven…
De verborgen kamer
Douglas Preston
FBI-detective Aloysius Pendergast is terug! De verborgen kamer van Preston & Child, het zestiende deel in de Pendergast-serie, is nóg spannender dan Scharlaken kust. Pendergast is vermist – en het lijkt alsof hij na zijn laatste onderzoek is verdronken aan de kust van Massachusetts. Pendergasts pupil, Constance, is geschokt door zijn vermissing en trekt zich terug in haar kamer diep onder hun herenhuis aan Riverside Drive. Zij en Pendergasts huisbediende, Proctor, zijn alleen in het huis als Pendergasts geduchte broer Diogenes – die iedereen voor dood hield – opeens opdaagt. Proctor wordt bewusteloos geslagen en wanneer hij later bijkomt, ontdekt hij dat Diogenes Constance heeft ontvoerd. Proctor komt meteen in actie en gaat op zoek. Maar wanneer hij eindelijk Constance gevonden denkt te hebben, doet hij een gruwelijke ontdekking: waar Constance had moeten zijn, staat alleen een gekoelde doodskist…
Scharlaken kust
Douglas Preston
FBI-agent Aloysius Pendergast onderzoekt de diefstal van de inhoud van een waardevolle wijnkelder in Exmouth - een schilderachtig kustplaatsje nabij Salem. Hij en zijn pupil Constance Greene ontdekken al snel iets sinisters in de kelder: een dichtgemetselde nis die de resten van een man bevat. Hij blijkt gemarteld te zijn en vervolgens levend begraven, 150 jaar geleden. Maar waarom?
Het oplossen van dit raadsel wordt bemoeilijkt wanneer ze nog een lijk vinden, bedekt met mysterieuze symbolen, in de zoutmijnen achter Exmouth. Dit is de plaats waar - volgens de legende - de echte heksen van Salem hun toevlucht zochten tijdens de heksenjachten van 1692...
Dit is de 15de thriller in de serie over FBI-agent Aloysius Pendergast.
Het blauwe labyrint
Douglas Preston
FBI-agent Aloysius Pendergast treft zijn bloedeigen zoon dood aan voor zijn deur. Alles wijst op een perfecte moord. De enige aanwijzing is een stukje turkoois in de maag van het slachtoffer. Het steentje leidt Pendergast naar een verlaten mijn en een uitgestorven resort aan de Californische kust.
Het voert hem tevens op een ontdekkingsreis diep door de sinistere geschiedenis van zijn eigen familie. Pendergast wordt slachtoffer van een onbekende kwade genius, die zint op wraak vanwege een gebeurtenis uit het verleden. Hij wordt het doelwit van een gruwelijk slim complot dat uiteindelijk maar op één manier kan eindigen: met zijn dood.
Over Wit vuur:
'Spannend... met als extra bonus: Het avontuur van Aspern Hall - het verloren gewaande verhaal van Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.' **** VN Detective en Thrillergids
'De thrillers van Preston & Child steken met kop en schouders uit boven die van hun concurrenten.' Publishers Weekly
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child zijn de #1-bestsellerauteurs van de Pendergast-thrillers en de thrillers over Gideon Crew. De vloek van het oerwoud en De gruwelkamer worden gerekend tot de honderd beste thrillers aller tijden.
Wit vuur
Douglas Preston
De excentrieke FBI-agent Pendergast arriveert in een exclusief skioord op het moment dat brute brandstichtingen de toeristen afschrikken. Pendergast ontdekt een onwaarschijnlijk geheim uit de dorpsgeschiedenis, dat samen lijkt te hangen met een legendarisch, verloren gewaand Sherlock Holmes-verhaal. Terwijl het dorp letterlijk onder vuur ligt en het leven van Pendergasts protegee Corrie Swanson ernstig gevaar loopt, moet Pendergast het raadsel uit het verleden zien op te lossen, voordat alles in vlammen opgaat...
Twee graven
Douglas Preston
Twaalf jaar heeft hij gedacht dat zijn vrouw was verongelukt. Toen werd hem verteld dat ze was vermoord. En nu ontdekt FBI special agent Aloysius Pendergast dat Helen nog leeft! Maar dan wordt ze voor zijn ogen ontvoerd. Dit is echter pas het begin van een nog gruwelijker plot, waarbij een seriemoordenaar paniek zaait in New York. En Pendergast is de enige die de moordenaar kan vinden. De jacht brengt hem tot diep in de ondoordringbare bossen van Zuid-Amerika, een plek waar hij herinnerd wordt aan het oude gezegde: Hij die uit is op wraak, dient twee graven te delven…
Weerwraak (Pendergast, #11)
Douglas Preston
Na een moordaanslag op zijn leven ternauwernood te hebben overleefd ontdekt FBI-agent Pendergast dat zijn vrouw die hij jaren eerder heeft begraven, niet dood is.
Koortsdroom
Douglas Preston
Agent Pendergast. Altijd onaangedaan. Totdat blijkt dat de dood van zijn geliefde vrouw Helen geen ongeluk was. Ze is vermoord, en Pendergast zal alles doen om achter de waarheid te komen.
Pendergast ontdekt dat Helen op zoek was naar een geheimzinnige neurologische vogelgriepvariant. Deze vogelgriep verveelvoudigt de hersenactiviteit van de geïnfecteerde, waardoor de patiënt extreem creatief wordt.
De farmaceutische industrie, alomtegenwoordig en machtig, is zeer gëïntresseerd in het ontwikkelen van een genialiteitsmedicijn. Zo geïntresseerd dat een mensenleven niets waard is. Zo geïntressdeerd dat het niet uitmaakt dat de vogelgrieppatiënten na een korte uitbarsting van genialiteit veranderen in onstuitbare maniakale moordmachines...
Duel met de dood (Pendergast, #9)
Douglas Preston
New York Times-verslaggever William Smithback en zijn vrouw Nora Kelly, antropoloog verbonden aan het Museum of National History, worden in hun appartement aan de Upper West Side aangevallen. Volgens ooggetuigen was de aanvaller hun ietwat vreemde, sinistere buurman – die is echter tien dagen daarvoor overleden...
Laura Hayward leidt het onderzoek, maar Pendergast en D'Agosta ondernemen hun eigen onorthodoxe queeste naar de waarheid. Zij doen een ongelooflijke ontdekking: in Manhattan leeft een geheime, besloten gemeenschap die een voodoocultus bedrijft die geen buitenstaander ooit heeft overleefd.
Het helse Rad
Douglas Preston
Een FBI-agent en zijn pleegdochter moeten een gestolen Tibetaans voorwerp met mysterieuze krachten opsporen en terugbrengen naar een klooster..
Dodenboek (Pendergast, #7)
Douglas Preston
FBI-agent Pendergast is een van de meest ontwapenende personages in de misdaadliteratuur. Maar hij heeft een gedreven, dodelijke vijand, die hem al zijn hele leven achtervolgd: zijn levensgevaarlijk, maar geniale broer Diogenes.
Diogenes stuurt het New Yorkse Museum of Natural History haar gestolen juwelcollctie terug... tot stof vemalen.
Om de pr-nachtmerrie te bezweren, besluit het museum de Tombe van Senef te heropenen, een populair artefact tot zijn verzegeling in de jaren dertig van de twintigste eeuw. De catastrofale gala-opening legt de grondslag voor een even onvermijdelijke als epische eindstrijd tussen de gebroeders Pendergast...
Dans des doods (Pendergast, #6)
Douglas Preston
In Dutch:
PBI-agent Pendergast is een van de mest ontwapenende personages in de misdaadliteratuur. Maar hij heeft een gedreven, dodelijke vijand, die hem al zijn hele leven achtervolgt: zijn levensgevaarlijke, maar geniale broer Diogenes. En Diogenes acht de tijd rijp om de wapens op te nemen. Een voor een sterven Pendergasts dierbaren een unieke, afgrijselijke dood.
Pendergast wordt van de moorden verdacht, en hij probeert wanhopig uit handen van de federale overheid te blijven. Tegelijkertijd moet hij, geholpen door zijn trouwe vriend Vincent D'Agosta, zijn broer tegenhouden. Maar hoe kan Pendergast iemand stoppen die instens zo intelligent is als hijzelf? Iemand die twintig jaar de tijd heeft gehad om de gruwelijkste misdaad ooit voor te bereiden.
Hellevuur (Pendergast, #5; Diogenes, #1)
Douglas Preston
Het lijk van criticus Jeremy Grove wordt gevonden in een gebarricadeerde kamer. Zijn gezicht vertoont een grimas van doodsangst en zijn lichaamstemperatuur is onmogelijk hoog. De kamer stinkt naar zwavel en op de muur bevindt zich een brandplek - de afdruk van een klauw... Wanneer er nog een slachtoffer valt - met als enig verband een identieke doodsoorzaak - ontstaat er een mediacircus en barsten de onheilsprofeten los. Veel mensen vragen zich af of de duivel los is.
FBI-agent Pendergast en sergeant Vincent D'Agosta (THE RELIC) geloven niet in een natuurlijke oorzaak. Hun onderzoek voert hen van de landhuizen van long Island via een kerkhof in Yonkers naar een eeuwenoud kasteel op het Italiaanse platteland. Daar ontmoet Pendergast opnieuw de gevaarlijkste tegenstander die hij ooit heeft gehad.
Kraaienvoer (Pendergast, #4)
Douglas Preston
Special agent Pendergast haast zich naar een geïsoleerde gemeenschap in Kansas, waar in een graancirkel een bizar tafereel is aangetroffen rond een ernstig verminkt lijk.
Het leidt tot vette krantenkoppen en angst in het dorp. De plaatselijke sheriff houdt vol dat het een incident was, aar Pendergast denkt aan een lokale seriemoordenaar en begint een eigen onderzoek.
De FBI-man krijgt gelijk: er vallen meer doden, schijnbaar zonder patroon. Pendergast doet alles om inzicht te krijgen in de onvoorspelbare schepper van de graancirkels. Maar de sheriff wil niet meer luisteren. Koppigheid en gekwetste trots leiden tot een tragedie.
De gruwelkamer (Pendergast, #3)
Douglas Preston
In Manhatten wordt een gruwelijke ontdekking gedaan: een ondergronds knekelhuis. Er blijken botten te liggen van tientallen slachtoffers, die allen rond 1880 vermoord zijn.
Als na een krantenartikel over deze oude misdaden vrijwel identieke nieuwe moorden worden gepleegd, breekt er paniek uit in New York. FBI-agent Pendergast, journalist Bill Smithback en archeologe Nora Kelly proberen de identiteit van de moordenaar te achterhalen, voordat ze zelf de volgende slachtoffers worden...
De vloek van het oerwoud (Pendergast, #1)
Douglas Preston
Er sluipt iets door de stoffige gangen en galmende zalen van het wereldberoemde Natural History Museum in New York. Er worden gruwelijke moorden gepleegd.
Zijn de fossiele dinosaurusbotten tot leven gekomen?
Zijn de geruchten over een monster waar?
Antropologe Margo Green ontdekt een verband tussen de moorden, een mislukte Amazone-expeditie en een vreemd afgodsbeeld dat jarenlang in de donkere kelders van het museum lag. Maar kan zij voorkomen dat er nog meer slachtoffers vallen, want het zwarte hart van het oerwoud vergeet niets..
De wraakengel (Pendergast #22)
Douglas Preston
Preston en Child zetten hun bestsellerserie met FBI-agent Pendergast voort in De wraakengel, het ijzingwekkende vervolg op Het kabinet van dr. Leng.
Constance Green confronteert Manhattans gevaarlijkste seriemoordenaar, Enoch Leng, om het leven van haar zus te redden – maar ze wordt verraden, en gaat met lege handen naar huis, witheet van woede. Zonder dat Leng het weet, verschijnt Pendergasts broer, Diogenes, om mysterieuze redenen op het toneel om hulp te bieden. Vermomd als geestelijke vestigt hij zich in New Yorks beruchte Five Points-sloppenwijk, en manipuleert hij de boel als een schaakmeester.
Vastbesloten toe te slaan zodra de kans zich voordoet. Terwijl Pendergast probeert de onstabiele Constance te redden van haar wraakzuchtige missie, trekt ze er zelf op uit om haar zus te behoeden voor een tragisch einde. Maar het wordt al snel duidelijk dat dr. Leng hen al deze tijd een stap voor was, en hij heeft een grote verrassing voor hun klaarstaan…
Berg des doods (Nora Kelly #4)
Douglas Preston
Een team van hoogbegaafde ingenieurs onderneemt een ambitieuze langlauftocht in Colorado bij de Cheyenne Mountains met hun recent uitgevonden outdooruitrusting. De groep jonge mensen beleeft het avontuur van hun leven: skiën, lachen en overvallen plegen voor de camera.
Aan het einde van de tocht komt er echter niet één thuis. Nora Kelly’s onderzoeksvaardigheden en Corrie Swansons forensische talenten worden op de proef gesteld wanneer ze proberen te achterhalen wat er is gebeurd met de veelbelovende ingenieurs op deze koude geïsoleerde berg.
Hoe meer speculaties en theorieën naar boven komen, hoe meer ze vrezen dat dit hun moeilijkste zaak tot nu toe zal worden.
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