Douglas J Preston
Author
Language
English
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Description
After New York Times reporter William Smithback and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Pendergast--the world's most enigmatic FBI Special Agent--returns to New York City to investigate a murderous Obeah cult.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
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...
5) Impact
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
When a brilliant meteor lights up the Maine coast, and NASA images reveal an unnatural feature hidden in the depths of a crater on Mars, it's just the start of the adventure for a former CIA operative, technicians, and many others.
7) Fever dream
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
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?
8) White fire
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Special Agent Pendergast arrives at an exclusive Colorado ski resort to rescue his protégée, Corrie Swanson, from serious trouble with the law when he uncovers a mysterious connection between long-dead miners and a fabled, long-lost Sherlock Holmes story--one that might just offer the key to an outbreak of modern day killings involving a deadly arsonist.
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The New York Museum of Natural History receives their pilfered gem collection back...ground down to dust. Diogenes, the psychotic killer who stole them in Dance of Death, is throwing down the gauntlet to both the city and to his brother, FBI Agent Pendergast, who is currently incarcerated in a maximum security prison. To quell the PR nightmare of the gem fiasco, the museum decides to reopen the Tomb of Senef. An astounding Egyptian temple, it was...
10) Two graves
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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.
11) Cold vengeance
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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.
12) Gideon's sword
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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.
13) Gideon's corpse
Author
Series
Publisher
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
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Audio Renaissance
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
Description
Tom Broadbent is riding his horse through a New Mexico canyon when he comes upon a dying prospector who gives Tom a notebook filled with mysterious numbers, asking him to pass it on to his daughter. As Tom and his wife try to deliver the notebook, they soon find themselves involved in a race to find the intact skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
16) Crimson shore
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
#1 bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child return with their next blockbuster Pendergast novel. Special Agent Pendergast takes on a private case in Exmouth, Massachusetts, a quaint village on the coast north of Salem, to investigate the theft of a valuable wine cellar. He travels to the seaside town with his ward, Constance Greene, where they quickly discover something far more sinister: a bricked-up niche in the wine cellar that holds...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The murder of Grace Ozmian first seems like an isolated case, but it quickly becomes clear that a diabolical presence is haunting New York City. It'll take all of Pendergast's skill to unmask this most dangerous foe, let alone survive to tell the tale.
18) Relic
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2010], p1995
Language
English
Description
An unusual figurine and the Amazon Basin archaeologists who found the relic are at the heart of a mystery surrounding a series of brutal killings at New York's Museum of Natural History.
Author
Series
The Pendergast Novels volume 17
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Preston and Child return with the next book in their #1 New York Times bestselling series featuring Special Agent Pendergast"--
Author
Publisher
Forge/Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"With Extinction, #1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston has written a page-turning thriller in the Michael Crichton mode that explores the possible and unintended dangers of the very real efforts to resurrect the woolly mammoth and other long-extinct animals."--Publisher's description.
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