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The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Room and Deep Storm is back with a new thriller that follows the trail of a killer who cannot exist ... featuring Jeremy Logan, the renowned investigator of the supernatural and fantastic.
BEYOND THE ICE LIMITThat 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 "e;meteorite"e; has a mind of its own-and it has no intention of going quietly...
In one of NPR's 100 Best Thrillers Ever, FBI agent Pendergast discovers thirty-six murdered bodies in a New York City charnel house . . . and now, more than a century later, a killer strikes again. 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.
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERGideon 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.
Under the direction of famed explorer Porter Stone, an archaeological team is secretly attempting to locate the tomb of King Narmer, an ancient pharaoh unlike any other. And Stone is anticipating a further discovery, the first of its kind in history: Narmer's famed crown, supposedly possessed of mythical powers, is thought to be buried with him. The dig is located in the Sudd, a nearly impassable swamp in northern Sudan and one of the most forbidding places on earth. And amid the nightmarish tangle of mud and dead vegetation, a series of harrowing and seemingly inexplicable occurrences has the team living in fear of a centuries-old curse. With a monumental discovery at stake, Professor Jeremy Logan is brought in to investigate. What he finds will raise new questions...and alarm. With The Third Gate, master storyteller Lincoln Child breaks new ground and introduces a fascinating new protagonist to the thriller genre.
Meet Gideon Crew in the first novel in a high-octane new thriller series from the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling authors. 'Fast-paced and action-packed...a clever, high velocity read' Kathy Reichs
A young couple are found dead in their apartment, and double suicide seems to be the only interpretation- Alarm bells ring in the towering Manhattan offices of Eden Incorporated, the high-tech matchmaking company whose spectacular success and legendary secrecy have inspired awe around the world.
The new thriller by the New York Times bestselling authors of The Relic (basis of the Paramount movie) and Reliquary. Movie rights to RIPTIDE have been optioned by Arnold Kopelson (producer of such hits as The Fugitive and Outbreak) and Twentieth Century Fox.
The adventure-packed thriller by the New York Times bestselling authors of Riptide, The Relic, and The Reliquary is now in paperback.
Kunstkritikeren Jeremy Grove findes myrdet på bestialsk vis. Tilsyneladende er han blevet kogt op indefra i et lukket rum, hvor de eneste to spor er en ækel lugt af svovl og aftrykket af en kløftet hov. Har selveste djævlen været på spil? Den excentriske FBI-agent Pendergast tror det ikke, så da endnu et grotesk mord finder sted, og pressen begynder at fable om overnaturlige kræfter, går Pendergast og hans team i gang med at finde en naturlig forklaring - som dog viser sig slet ikke at være så ligetil endda!Douglas Preston og Lincoln Child har hver for sig skabt sig store karrierer som spændingsbogsforfattere - mest kendte er de dog blevet for deres fællesbøger og ikke mindst for at have skabt den nok mest farverige karakter indenfor den nutidige thrillergenre; agent Aloysius Pendergast, der også er den bærende kraft i "I pagt med djævlen".Oprindeligt startede Douglas Preston sit arbejdsliv på et naturhistorisk museum, mens Lincoln Child var systemanalytiker.De opfordrer deres utallige læsere verden over til at sende dem email via deres hjemmeside www.preston.child.com
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