Gideon has turned his life around- he's not stealing anymore, he's got a legitimate job at Los Alamos and he loves fly fishing. Until his mother dies and gives him a mission- find the man who ruined his father's reputation and branded him a traitor. This launches Gideon into a world he didn't k...
Once again Preston & Child have collaborated on a thought provoking rip roaring adventure.Start off with stealing the Chi Rho monogram of the Book of Kells, itself being the incipit for a narrative of the life of Christ. Then discover that the vellum it was on is hiding a secret map and the vellu...
What a hoot! I had previously read only 2 of Preston/Child's novels, both involving Inspector Pendergast.The Lost Island is their 3rd novel dealing with Gideon Crew and his employer Eli Glinn. It is a humorous, exciting, mystery. A fun read. It ends laying the basis for yet a 4th Gideon Crew ...
It's difficult, and rather taxing, to try and create a review for a novel such as this. For having read the entire breadth of the Pendergast series for the past couple of months or so, I'm finding it hard to believe that I'll be moving on to other tales after this. After being a part of a charact...
Read this after the first Gideon Crew novel. It was enjoyable but not one of my favorites. Another great story. Lots of twists and excitement. Gideon is one of my favorite characters.
I was pretty disappointed with this book in the Pendergast series. I will probably read the next book in order to find out more about Helen, Pendergast's wife. The story dragged a little bit towards the middle of the book and I could not believe the mistakes that Pendergast was making. I could no...
Re-posting. 4 stars. A great segue to Gideon's Sword with an action filled plot and surprising twists throughout. Gideon is once again thrust head long into a request from EES only to find out he has stepped deep into a terrorist plot of the worst kind, involving a nuclear bomb. With only day...
I have rated this book so low because it feels like it was not written by the authors themselves. The characters of Pendergast and Constance are just a shade inconsistent with previous books. There are several chapters that elaborate on meaningless plot filler (such as why D'Agosta cooks for Hayw...
It is an O.K book but not the kind of book that I like. Thank goodness it was so short or I wouldn't have finished reading it. It started off really interesting and then I got really bored. (Sorry Mr. Douglas) The author does do a good job talking about how the internet can work for or against so...
Now this was satisfying from nearly beginning to end. It's a look at New York City's natural history museum, split into two parts. The first is a more straightforward history of the institution, both how it came about as well as how the philosophy of managing an enormous natural history collectio...
I'm a huge fan of the series of books co-authored by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. I also enjoyed Child's first solo novel, but Preston's The Codex left me wondering if Child is the heart of their writing duo (although Child's Utopia certainly had some plot holes).In The Codex, Maxwell Broad...
What makes us human? Is it our ability to communicate? How we can use tools? Maybe it is our ability to reason or our ability to love. Jennie blurs the lines and will make you re-think what it means to be human as you are introduced and will fall in love with Jennie, a chimpanzee. Born to a nea...
You know it's a bad sign when you keep flipping to the end of the book to see how much further you have to slog 'til the end. I consider myself a fan of the Lincoln-Child (LC) books. At the time of this writing I've read seven Pendergast books back-to-back earlier this year. Although I wouldn'...