Douglas Preston
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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...
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 21
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
As Constance finds her way back to New York City in the late 1800s to prevent the death of her siblings and stop serial killer, Dr. Enoch Leng, FBI Special Agent Pendergast desperately tries to find a way to reunite with her before it's too late.
3) Old bones
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 1
Language
English
Description
Young curator Nora Kelly and historian Guy Porter teaming up for an excavation in Sierra Nevada that exposes complex realities about the Donner Party.
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 16
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
With special agent Pendergast missing and presumed dead and his ward Constance taken captive by a shadowy figure from the past, Pendergast's bodyguard, Proctor, begins an international pursuit of Constance's kidnapper.
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
FBI agent Corrie Swanson and Santa Fe archaeologist Nora Kelly investigate the mummified corpse of a long-dead victim who died in agony while holding a mysterious sixteenth-century gold cross.
Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his former employer goes missing, Gideon Crew, reeling from his terminal diagnosis, pursues the long-awaited translation of the Phaistos Disc, an ancient tablet that could end or save his life.
7) Fever dream
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discovering that the tragic death of his wife, Helen, while they were big game hunting in Africa twelve years earlier was not an accident, Special Agent Pendergast investigates Helen's past to discover who might have wanted her dead.
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A bonding trip for Pendergast and his brother-in-law, Judson Esterhazy, turns violent. Before abandoning a mortally-wounded Pendergast, Esterhazy announces his sister, Pendergast's long-dead wife Helen, is alive"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Five years after a giant meteorite from deep space sank to the ocean floor after a failed recovery effort, the discovery that the meteorite is actually a complex organism that is now growing and could destroy life on Earth leads to a high-stakes assignment for Gideon Crew.
10) Relic
Author
Series
Pendergast novel volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Investigating a series of savage murders that disrupt a massive new exhibition at the New York Museum of Natural History, graduate student Margo Green finds a clue in a failed Amazonian expedition.
11) Crooked river
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 19
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Investigating dozens of grisly blue shoes containing severed human feet floating in the ocean off the coast of Florida, Pendergast and Junior Agent Coldmoon make harrowing discoveries while confronting an adversary of unimaginable power.
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 17
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Heading an investigation into the murder of a wealthy tech billionaire's daughter, Lieutenant CDS Vincent D'Agosta teams up with FBI Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast, only to uncover the work of a serial killer whose agenda threatens an entire city.
13) Gideon's corpse
Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 2
Publisher
Vision ; distributed by Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2012
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.
Author
Series
Wyman Ford novels volume 4
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When miscalculations lead to a catastrophe during the testing of an artificial intelligence designed for a NASA probe, the AI escapes to the internet. Now the programmer who created "Dorothy" must team up with former CIA agent Wyman Ford to locate her before something devastating happens.