Bøger af Douglas Preston

FBI Special Agent Pendergast faces his most powerful and deadly opponent in the latest instalment in Preston & Child's bestselling series.

A body is discovered, without its head - two killers are on the loose. A pair of killers requires a team of equally talented investigators. Luckily both Vincent D'Agosta and Special Agent Pendergast are back in town.

A breathtaking adventure from the hottest names in US thriller writing.

Nora Kelly and Corrie Swanson return in the new thriller from international bestsellers Preston and Child. When a pair of skeletons are discovered at the Roswell landing site, the truth will be even stranger than the conspiracy it hides behind.

Agent Pendergast faces his most unexpected challenge yet when bloodless bodies begin to appear in Savannah, GA.

FBI Special Agent Pendergast must confront a strange, otherworldly circumstance - a new partnership.

A spectacular new Agent Pendergast thriller from the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling authors.

The latest pulse-pounding thriller from New York Times bestsellers Preston & Child. In Colorado near the Cheyenne Mountains, a team of topflight engineers venture on an ambitious cross country ski trip, using their newly invented outdoor equipment. The strapping group of young people are having the adventure of their lives - skiing, laughing, playing in the snow, and mugging for the camera. But when the gang was expected to arrive back from their trip - no one ever returned. Nora's excavation skills and Corrie's investigative talents are put to the test as they try to uncover what happened to the promising skiers on this cold and isolating mountain. But as more speculations and theories come to light, they fear this may be the hardest case to crack yet.Praise for Preston and Child'Sit back, crack open the book and get ready for the ride of your life.' DAVID BALDACCI 'White-hot bestselling suspense. Simply brilliant!" LISA GARDNER

Colorado, 1876: At a remote mining camp high in the Rocky Mountains, eleven silver miners are killed, their bodies horribly mutilated, flesh devoured. Bear attack? Not everyone thinks so.136 years later, the cemetery where the miners were buried is being cleared for new development. Forensic pathologist Corrie Swanson has arranged to study the bones. What she discovers will expose a conspiracy that's as lethal today as it was a century ago. As the winter snows fall, Corrie's life depends on unravelling a dark secret... the key to which may just lie in a lost Sherlock Holmes story, a tale allegedly so horrifying that its author never dared publish it.

#1 bestselling authors Preston & Child return with the next book in a series featuring archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson.

Preston & Child bring the true story of the ill-fated Donner Party to new life in a thrilling blend of archaeology, history, murder, and suspense.

When a straightforward murder case spirals out of control, Pendergast and his ward investigate an ancient witches' colony in a sleepy New England town where a terrible evil awaits . . . 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. Pendergast and Constance soon learn that Exmouth is a town with a very dark and troubled history, and this skeleton may be only the first hint of an ancient transgression, kept secret all these years. But they will discover that the sins of the past are still very much alive. Local legend holds that during the 1692 witch trials in Salem, the real witches escaped, fleeing north to Exmouth and settling deep in the surrounding salt marshes, where they continued to practice their wicked arts. Then, a murdered corpse turns up in the marshes. The only clue is a series of mysterious carvings. Could these demonic symbols bear some relation to the ancient witches' colony, long believed to be abandoned?A terrible evil lurks beneath the surface of this sleepy seaside town-one with deep roots in Exmouth's grim history. And it may be that Constance, with her own troubled past, is the only one who truly comprehends the awful danger that she, Pendergast, and the residents of Exmouth must face . . .

Pasado y presente se entrelazan en este nuevo y escalofriante misterio del inspector Aloysius Pendergast.Hace ciento cincuenta años un oso devoró a once mineros en Roaring Fork, Colorado. Ocho de los esqueletos todavía se conservan en un almacén del pueblo, convertido ahora en un exclusivo destino para esquiadores.Hacia allí se dirige Corrie Swanson, la impetuosa y rebelde protegida de Pendergast, con la intención de estudiar los restos de los mineros para su tesis doctoral en criminología. El primer día, el jefe de policía le presta todas las facilidades; al día siguiente, sin embargo, le informa de que ya no tiene autorización para investigar. Encarcelada por no haber acatado tal prohibición, Corrie pide ayuda al agente especial del FBI Aloysius Pendergast. No está dispuesta a renunciar a su investigación, sobre todo ahora que, tras haber examinado los huesos, está convencida de que los mineros no murieron atrapados en las garras del oso. La aportación de Pendergast será aún más inesperada: descubrirá una posible conexión entre la muerte de los mineros y un relato supuestamente perdido de Sherlock Holmes. English Description Colorado, 1876: At a remote mining camp high in the Rocky Mountains, eleven silver miners are killed, their bodies horribly mutilated, flesh devoured. Bear attack? Not everyone thinks so. 136 years later, the cemetery where the miners were buried is being cleared for new development. Forensic pathologist Corrie Swanson has arranged to study the bones. What she discovers will expose a conspiracy that's as lethal today as it was a century ago. As the winter snows fall, Corrie's life depends on unravelling a dark secret... the key to which may just lie in a lost Sherlock Holmes story, a tale allegedly so horrifying that its author never dared publish it.

El misterio que rodea a la mujer de Pendergast se hace cada vez más impenetrable y el inspector descubre que en realidad no sabía casi nada del pasado de su esposa. Después de averiguar que la muerte de su esposa Helen no fue un accidente, el agente especial del FBI Aloysius Pendergast tiene una sola meta en la vida: la venganza. Implacable, persigue a los que lo traicionaron por las marismas de Louisiana, las calles de Nueva York y hasta los páramos desolados de Escocia. Sin embargo, lo que descubre solo le enturbia su visión de lo sucedido: Helen podría haber sido partícipe de su propio asesinato. Las capas del embrollo son múltiples y esconden un complot cuyo origen se encuentra generaciones atrás y que parece ser más monstruoso de lo que jamás pudiera haber imaginado. Pendergast percibe que todo lo que creía y todo lo que entendía podría basarse en una mentira horrenda. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION 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 City 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.

An epic thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston, perfect for fans of Michael Crichton. Extinction explores the very real effort to resurrect the woolly mammoth and other extinct megafauna from the Pleistocene Age. Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent hundred-thousand acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing

Leyendas apaches, minas abandonadas y experimentos secretos en la segunda entrega de la nueva serie de Preston & Child que mezcla arqueología, historia, asesinato y suspense. Corrie Swanson, joven agente del FBI, se enfrenta al descubrimiento de un cuerpo momificado en High Lonesome, un pueblo minero de Nuevo México abandonado hace mucho tiempo. El cadáver se encuentra en posición fetal, el rostro presenta un rictus terrorífico y entre sus ropas se oculta una cruz de oro y piedras preciosas. El extraño hallazgo plantea muchas preguntas y Corrie solicita la colaboración de la doctora Nora Kelly en la excavación. El fallecido se llamaba Jim Gower y solía merodear por el pueblo en busca de reliquias de los indios originarios de la zona y de los conquistadores españoles que llegaron después. Corrie localiza al único descendiente del muerto, Jesse Gower, que reclama la propiedad de la cruz de oro y afirma que antes de dedicarse a buscar objetos antiguos, Jim Gower había sido propietario de un rancho a pocos kilómetros de High Lonesome, que le expropió el gobierno. La investigación concluye que Jim Gower murió alrededor de 1945, envenenado. Entretanto, la doctora Kelly ha identificado uno de los objetos hallados junto al cadáver, se trata de una bolsita de hierbas con propiedades medicinales, como las que usaban los apaches.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONFrom #1 bestselling authors Preston & Child comes a thrilling novel following archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson as they work together to solve a twisted crime that reaches far beyond any of their worst fears. Following the acclaimed debut of Old Bones, this second "happily anticipated" new thriller in Preston & Child's series features Nora Kelly, archaeologist at the Santa Fe Archeological Institute, and rookie FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, as they team up to solve a mystery that quickly escalates into nightmare (Booklist). A mummified corpse, over half a century old, is found in the cellar of an abandoned building in a remote New Mexico ghost town. Corrie is assigned what seems to her a throwaway case: to ID the body and determine cause of death. She brings archaeologist Nora Kelly to excavate the body and lend her expertise to the investigation, and together they uncover something unexpected and shocking: the deceased apparently died in agony, in a fetal position, skin coming off in sheets, with a rictus of horror frozen on his face. Hidden on the corpse lies a 16th century Spanish gold cross of immense value. When they at last identify the body -- and the bizarre cause of death -- Corrie and Nora open a door into a terrifying, secret world of ancient treasure and modern obsession: a world centered on arguably the most defining, frightening, and transformative moment in American history.

With Extinction, #1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston has written an epic thriller in the Michael Crichton mode that explores the very real effort to resurrect the woolly mammoth and other extinct megafauna from the Pleistocene Age.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 extinction.

"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"--