Douglas Preston
21) Gideon's sword
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Gideon Crew volume 1
Language
English
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"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.
22) Cold vengeance
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 11
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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"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
Pendergast novels volume 8
Language
English
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FBI Special Agent, Aloysius Pendergast, agrees to track down a stolen ancient Tibetan box, which in the wrong hands could wipe out humanity, and the trail leads him and his ward, Constance Greene, to the maiden voyage of the Britannia, the world's largest luxurious ocean liner.
26) Dance of death
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 6
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"FBI Special Agent Pendergast is pitted against his most personal foe: His brother, Diogenes, has planned a horrendous crime and is framing Pendergast for a series of terrible murders."--Provided by the publisher.
28) Riptide
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
For generations, treasure hunters have tried to unlock the deadly puzzle known as the Water Pit: a labyrinth of shafts and tunnels that honeycombs the heart of a small island off the coast of Maine. Reputed to be the hiding place of pirate treasure, the Water Pit possesses an inexplicable ability to kill those who venture into it, from professionals to innocent explorers. The most comprehensive, high-tech expedition ever assembled has come to Maine...
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 3
Language
English
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In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered. Inside are thirty-six bodies all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago. While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings start to terrorize the city. The nightmare has begun. Again.
30) White fire
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Series
Pendergast novels volume 13
Language
English
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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.
31) Two graves
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Series
Pendergast novels volume 12
Language
English
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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.
32) Gideon's corpse
Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 2
Language
English
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Description
After a standoff between a top nuclear scientist from Los Alamos and an innocent hostage turns violent, Gideon Crew must track down a rogue nuclear device.
Author
Series
Wyman Ford novels volume 4
Language
English
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Description
"NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is designing a probe which will be dropped into the Kraken Mare, one of the methane seas of Titan. There, it will embark on a journey of exploration. As the probe is being tested at Goddard, things go awry, and an explosion kills seven scientists. The AI program in the probe, a powerful, self-modifying AI called "Dorothy," flees into the Internet. Series character Wyman Ford is tapped by the president's science...
35) Fever dream
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 10
Language
English
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Description
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?
37) Sheng gu zhi xia
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Traditional Chinese edition of RELIQUARY (Pendergast book 2) by Douglas Preston.
39) Impact
Author
Series
Wyman Ford novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When Wyman Ford is called in to investigate the mysterious exit hole of a meteorite that amazingly passed straight through the earth, what he finds defies all that we know about our universe. He and his team of scientists must figure out how to destroy an alien doomsday weapon in the next sixty hours. Their only tools are what is already in orbit around Mars - the Orbiter, the Mars lander on the surface, and several smaller satellites orbiting the...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence, Italy. The Monster of Florence is a remarkable and harrowing story involving murder, mutilation, and suicide--and at the center of it, Preston and Spezi are caught in a bizarre prosecutorial vendetta.--From publisher description.