Douglas Preston

Introducing Gideon Crew: trickster, prodigy, master thief At twelve, Gideon Crew witnessed his father, a world-class mathematician, accused of treason and gunned down. At twenty-four, summoned to his dying mother's bedside, Gideon learned the truth: His father was framed and deliberately slaughtered. With her last breath, she begged her son to avenge him. Now, with a new purpose in his life, Gideon crafts a one-time mission of vengeance, aimed at the perpetrator of his father's destruction. His plan is meticulous, spectacular, and successful. But from the shadows, someone is watching. A very powerful someone, who is impressed by Gideon's special skills. Someone who has need of just such a renegade. For Gideon, this operation may be only the beginning . . .

In Douglas Preston's Impact, Wyman Ford is tapped for a secret expedition to Cambodia... to locate the source of strangely beautiful gemstones that do not appear to be of this world. A brilliant meteor lights up the Maine coast... and two young women borrow a boat and set out for a distant island to find the impact crater. A scientist at the National Propulsion Facility discovers an inexplicable source of gamma rays in the outer Solar System. He is found decapitated, the data missing. High resolution NASA images reveal an unnatural feature hidden in the depths of a crater on Mars... and it appears to have been activated. Sixty hours and counting.

Den amerikanske författaren Douglas Preston flyttar till en idyllisk by utanför Florens och förverkligar en livslång dröm. Men när han av en slump upptäcker att olivlunden utanför familjens nya villa har en blodig historia blir det också inledningen på en resa in mot ondskans mörker. Tillsammans med den italienske kriminalreportern Mario Spezi ger han sig ut på jakt efter den ökände seriemördaren Monstret i Florens, som under tio år gäckat polisen med sina grymma mord på unga kärlekspar bland Toscanas böljande kullar. I en utredning som ekar av den trollbindande staden Florens mörka och blodiga historia gör de allt för att spåra den skyldige och blir samtidigt själva utsatta för en illvillig komplott. Monstret i Florens är en mardrömslik och häpnadsväckande berättelse om den längsta och dyraste brottsutredningen i Italiens historia och två mäns envisa försök att avslöja en bestialisk mördares identitet. RÖSTER OM BOKENFascinerande och omöjlig att lägga ifrån sig -- en fantastisk läsupplevelse. Minette WaltersNär jag läste Monstret i Florens på engelska tyckte jag att det var en av de roligaste reportageböcker jag läst. Utöver att den redogör för ett av Europas mer fascinerande kriminalfall dras författaren själv in i handlingen när den italienska polisen misstänkliggör hans intresse. Så blir den lika mycket en berättelse om det vansinniga italienska rättsväsendet där tre olika distanser försvårar för varandra i jakten på mördaren. Därtill allt det andra: staden Florens med sin historia, och hur fallet inspirerade Thomas Harris till När lammen tystnar-uppföljaren Hannibal. Mattias Göransson, chefredaktör FilterOM FÖRFATTARNADouglas Preston är amerikansk bestsellerförfattare och mannen bakom romanserien om FBI-agenten Pendergast. Han har skrivit ett antal hyllade fackböcker liksom texter för tidningar som The New Yorker och National Geographic. Mario Spezi är framgångsrik italiensk kriminalreporter som har bevakat många av de mest omtalade kriminalfallen i Italien. Han har också skrivit fack- och skönlitterära böcker som publicerats i Italien, såväl som i ett flertal andra länder.

On an abandoned Santa Fe ranch a young archaeologist finds a letter written sixteen years earlier yet, mysteriously, mailed only recently. In it her father, long believed dead, hints at a lost city of gold that will make him famous-and rich. Now Nora Kelly is leading an expedition into a harsh, remote corner of Utah's canyon country. Searching for her father and his discovery, Nora begins to unravel one of archaeology's greatest mysteries.

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

The Monster of Florence, which was shortlisted for the prestigious CWA Gold Dagger Award for Non Fiction in 2010, is a true account of brutal serial murder in idyllic Florence. After settling in Italy in 2000, Douglas Preston discovered that the olive grove in front of his family's new home had been the scene of one of the most infamous double-murders in Italian history, committed by a serial killer who had never been found and was known only as the Monster of Florence. Preston, intrigued, met Italian journalist Mario Spezi, who had followed the case since the first murders in 1974, to learn more. This is the true story of their search for - and identification of - the man they believe committed the crimes, and their chilling interview with him. It's also the story of how Preston and Spezi themselves became embroiled in the case. Like one of Preston's bestselling thrillers, The Monster of Florence tells a gripping and harrowing story of murder, mutilation, suspicion and ruined lives - and at the centre of it, two brave writers trying to uncover the truth at all costs. This latest edition includes an explosive afterword about the much-publicised murder of a British student, Meredith Kercher, and its connection to the monster case.

The final battle between good and evil. Only one will survive...

Two brothers bound by blood, divided by hate . . .

A stunning archaeological thriller from Douglas Preston, the New York Times bestselling co-author of Brimstone and Relic. A moon rock missing for thirty years... Five buckets of blood-soaked sand found in a New Mexico canyon... A scientist with ambition enough to kill... A monk who will redeem the world... A dark agency with a deadly mission... The greatest scientific discovery of all time... What fire bolt from the galactic dark shattered the Earth eons ago, and now hides in that remote cleft in the southwest U. S. known as Tyrannosaur Canyon? Tyrannosaur Canyon is a fascinating novel from acclaimed bestselling author Douglas Preston, hailed by Publishers Weekly as better than Crichton.

"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.

This riveting true story recounts the author's journey on horseback across Arizona and New Mexico, retracing Coronado's desperate search for the legendary Seven Cities of Gold. First published in 1992 and now available only from UNM Press, this classic adventure tale reveals the Southwest as it was when Europeans first saw it and shows how much, and how little, it has changed. "The great myth of the American West," Preston writes, "is that there was a winning of it."

Reliquary is the smash hit second book in the Pendergast series, from New York Times bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child Hidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by those who walk the streets above. There lies the ultimate secret of the Museum Beast. When two grotesquely deformed skeletons are found deep in the mud off the Manhattan shoreline, museum curator Margo Green is called in to aid the investigation. Margo must once again team up with police lieutenant D'Agosta and FBI agent Pendergast, as well as the brilliant Dr. Frock, to try and solve the puzzle. The trail soon leads deep underground, where they will face the awakening of a slumbering nightmare... in Reliquary, from bestselling coauthors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.