Douglas J Preston
1) Río maldito
Author
Series
Publisher
Plaza & Janés
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
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Description
Apareciendo de la nada para horrorizar a la tranquila ciudad turística de Sanibel Island, Florida, docenas de zapatos idénticos de aspecto ordinario flotan en la marea y son arrastrados a la playa tropical, cada uno con un pie humano toscamente cortado en su interior. El agente Pendergast, llamado fuera de sus vacaciones en otro lugar del estado, accede a regañadientes a visitar la escena del crimen y, a su pesar, rápidamente se ve atraído por...
Author
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Mount Dragon: an enigmatic research complex hidden in the vast desert of New Mexico. Guy Carson and Susana Cabeza de Vaca have come to Mount Dragon to work shoulder to shoulder with some of the greatest scientific minds on the planet. Led by visionary genius Brent Scopes, their secret goal is a medical breakthrough that promises to bring incalculable benefits to the human race. But while Scopes believes he is leading the way to a new world order,...
3) Bloodless
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 20
Language
English
Description
"Agent Pendergast faces his most unexpected challenge yet when bloodless bodies begin to appear in Savannah, GA"--
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
The Museum of Natural History receives back a pilfered gem collection, which has been is ground to dust. To quell the PR nightmare the museum decides to reopen the Tomb of Senef; that's when the killings and talk of ancient curse start. FBI agent Pendergast is pitted against his brilliant, psychotic brother Diogenes.
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Series
Pendergast novels volume 19
Language
English
Description
Racing to uncover the mystery of several light green-shoe-clad severed feet found floating in the Atlantic, Agent Pendergast is faced with most inexplicable challenge of his career in this installment of the #1 NYT bestselling series. A STARTLING CRIME WITH DOZENS OF VICTIMS. 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...
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Series
Pendergast novels volume 21
Language
English
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Description
As Constance finds her way back to New York City in the late 1800s to prevent the death of her siblings and stop serial killer Dr. Enoch Leng, FBI Special Agent Pendergast desperately tries to find a way to reunite with her before it's too late.
"Preston & Child continue their #1 bestselling series featuring FBI Special Agent Pendergast and Constance Greene, as they cross paths with New York's deadliest serial killer: Pendergast's own ancestor...and...
7) Old bones
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome Historian, Guy Porter, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Guy tells his story--one involving the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party stumbled out of the California mountains, replete with...
8) Diablo Mesa
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 3
Language
English
Description
Responding to the promise of a hefty donation from an eccentric billionaire with space travel ambitions, the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute excavates the site of the 1947 Roswell incident and immediately uncovers two unknown murder victims.
A billionaire wants to excavate the site of the 1947 Roswell incident, and Nora Kelly is tasked with the job. Instead of aliens, they uncover bodies--a discovery that opens a pandora's box of mystery and atomic...
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 2
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.
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Series
Gideon Crew volume 4
Language
English
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That 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...
11) The pharaoh key
Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 5
Language
English
Description
Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief, intrepid adventurer--is shocked when his former employer, Eli Glinn, vanishes without a trace, and Glinn's high-tech lab Effective Engineering Solutions shuts down seemingly overnight. Fresh off a diagnosis that gives him only months to live, Crew is contacted by one of his former coworkers at EES, Manuel Garza, who has a bead on one final treasure hinted at in EES's final case, the long-awaited translation...
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Series
Pendergast novels volume 18
Language
English
Description
After an overhaul of leadership at the FBI's New York field office, A. X. L. Pendergast is abruptly forced to accept an unthinkable condition of continued employment: the famously rogue agent must now work with a partner. Pendergast and his new teammate, junior agent Coldmoon, are assigned to Miami Beach, where a rash of killings by a bloodthirsty psychopath are distinguished by a confounding M.O.: cutting out the hearts of his victims and leaving...
13) Dance of Death
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 6
Language
English
Description
Hot on the trail of a killer in Manhattan, FBI Special Agent Pendergast must face his most brilliant and dangerous enemy: his own brother.
Two brothers.
One a top FBI agent.
The other a brilliant, twisted criminal.
An undying hatred between them.
Now, a perfect crime.
And the ultimate challenge:
Stop me if you can...
Two brothers.
One a top FBI agent.
The other a brilliant, twisted criminal.
An undying hatred between them.
Now, a perfect crime.
And the ultimate challenge:
Stop me if you can...
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 16
Language
English
Description
With special agent Pendergast missing and presumed dead and his ward Constance taken captive by a shadowy figure from the past, Pendergast's bodyguard, Proctor, begins an international pursuit of Constance's kidnapper.
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 17
Language
English
Description
""FOR GOD'S SAKE, TELL US WHAT'S HAPPENED!" "VENGEANCE. VENGEANCE IS WHAT'S HAPPENED." It begins as a manhunt for Grace Ozmian, the missing daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire. At first, the NYPD assumes Grace, beautiful, reckless, and a regular feature of the local tabloids, has simply sped off on another wild adventure. But the case becomes something altogether different when the young woman's body is discovered in an abandoned warehouse in...
16) White fire
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 13
Language
English
Description
In 1876, in a mining camp called Roaring Fork in the Colorado Rockies, several miners were killed from grizzly bear attacks. Corrie Swanson has arranged to examine the remains of the dead miners. She makes a shocking discovery. Town leaders, try to stop her from exposing their community's dark and bloody past, arrest and jail her. Special Agent Pendergast of the FBI arrives and with the town under siege, and Corrie's life in desperate danger, Pendergast...
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 11
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.
18) Blasphemy
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Series
Wyman Ford novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
A CIA operative is sent to a remote Arizona mountain with a group of scientists to turn on the world's biggest supercollider. His mission: to discover a secret that will either destroy the world...or save it.
19) Crimson shore
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 15
Language
English
Description
"Special Agent Pendergast takes on a private case in Exmouth, Massachusetts-an ancient 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 held the remains of a man, tortured and then entombed alive 150 years ago. But why? The puzzle is compounded when...
20) Huesos olvidados
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novel volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Crimen, canibalismo, una expedición maldita y un misterio enterrado en el tiempo. Preston & Child inauguran una irresistible serie que mezcla arqueología, historia, crimen y suspense. La joven arqueóloga Nora Kelly recibe una extraordinaria propuesta: liderar un equipo en busca del llamado «Campamento perdido» de la expedición Donner. Su misterio se remonta a 1847, cuando un grupo de pioneros quedó atrapado en las montañas de California...