Lincoln Child

The dramatic second novel in a three-book story arc starring enigmatic FBI Agent Pendergast on his search for his long-lost wife, Helen.

A top nuclear scientist goes mad and takes an innocent family hostage at gunpoint, killing one and causing a massive standoff. A plume of radiation above New York City leads to a warehouse where, it seems, a powerful nuclear bomb was assembled just hours before. Sifting through the evidence, authorities determine that the unthinkable is about to happen: in ten days, a major American city will be vaporized by a terrorist attack. Ten days. And Gideon Crew, tracking the mysterious terrorist cell from the suburbs of New York to the mountains of New Mexico, learns the end may be something worse--far worse--than mere Armageddon.

Lewis and Lindsay Thorpe were the perfect couple: young, attractive, and ideally matched. But the veil of perfection can mask many blemishes. When the Thorpes are found dead in their tasteful Flagstaff living room (having committed double suicide), alarms go off in the towering Manhattan offices of Eden Incorporated, the high-tech matchmaking company whose spectacular success, and legendary secrecy, has inspired awe around the world. The Thorpes, few people knew, were more than the quintessential happy couple - they were Eden's first perfect match. A short time later, Christopher Lash, a gifted former FBI forensic psychologist, receives an urgent plea from Eden to perform a quick - and quiet - investigation into the deaths. Lash's psychological autopsy reveals nothing suspicious, but inadvertently dredges up the memories of a searing personal tragedy he has kept at bay for years. The situation changes suddenly when a second Eden couple is found dead -- by all appearances, another double suicide. Now Eden - particularly Richard Silver, the company's brilliant and reclusive founder - has no choice but to grant Lash unprecedented access to its most guarded secrets if he is to have any chance of determining what is going wrong. The hidden world he discovers is a stunning labyrinth of artificial intelligence, creative genius, and a melding of technology that does indeed, to Lash's surprise, deliver on Eden's promise to its clients: the guarantee of a perfect, lifelong mate. But Lash's involvement in the investigation becomes more personal and dangerous than he could have imagined, nearly as soon as it begins. With tremendous imagination and skill, master thriller-writer Lincoln Child renders a setting too frighteningly believable not to be real. Infused with relentless suspense and a riveting pace, DEATH MATCH is Child at his best.

Meet Gideon Crew in the first novel in a high-octane new thriller series from the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling authors.'Preston and Child have crafted an electrifying, riveting thriller on which I could continue to heap praise, but instead I will just offer this: Read the book!' David BaldacciRevenge is sweet and Gideon Crew is about to get a taste. As a child, Gideon Crew witnessed the brutal murder of his father; a scientist wrongly framed by the US government, during a dramatic hostage crisis. Twenty years later, Gideon finally gets his revenge and fulfils the promise that he made to his mother on her death bed; to bring down the powerful and corrupt man who destroyed his father. The Crew family name is finally cleared, but Gideon's story is only just beginning. His daredevil act of revenge has not gone unnoticed and he is soon approached by a shadowy figure who offers him the chance of a lifetime. The only catch? He might not have that much lifetime left and the clock is now ticking.

In this riveting, high-octane thriller from Lincoln Child, an ancient creature is inadvertently released to wreak havoc on the inhabitants of a desolate arctic landscape. Alaska's Federal Wilderness Zone is one of the most dangerous and inhospitable places on Earth. For paleoecologist Evan Marshall, an expedition to the Zone offers an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study the mounting effects of climate change. But once there, Marshall and his intrepid team make an astonishing discovery: an enormous prehistoric animal encased in solid ice. Despite repeated warnings from the local village, and Marshall's own mounting concern, the expedition sponsors want the creature cut from the ice, thawed, and revealed on a live television spectacular... But then the creature disappears and an unspeakable horror is unleashed.

Lewis ja Lindsay Thorpe ovat sataprosenttisesti yhteen sopiva, täydellinen superpari. He löysivät toisensa deittipalvelu Edenin erehtymättömän, tekoälyyn pohjautuvan ohjelman avulla. Kun heidät löydetään kuolleina, mitä ilmeisimmin kaksoisitsemurhan tehneinä, entinen FBI-agentti Christopher Lash pyydetään selvittämään tapausta. Umpirakastuneen ja onnelliselta näyttäneen parin kuolema on täysi mysteeri - ainakin siihen asti kun toinen superpari löytyy kuolleena...

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

Twelve years ago, Special Agent Pendergast's beloved wife was murdered during an African safari -- and now, he's on a quest for revenge. 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.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this explosive thriller, one of the most incredible and frightening discoveries mankind has ever faced is about to surface. On an oil platform in the middle of the North Atlantic, a terrifying series of illnesses is spreading through the crew. When expert naval doctor Peter Crane is flown in, he finds his real destination is not the platform itself but Deep Storm: a top secret aquatic science facility, two miles below on the ocean floor. And as Crane soon learns, the covert operation he finds there is concealing something far more sinister than a medical mystery--and much more deadly. Don't miss Lincoln Child's new thriller, Chrysalis

The NEW YORK TIMES bestselling authors return with a stunning new adventure featuring the FBI's most inscrutable agent, Aloysius Pendergast.

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 . . .

Lewis ja Lindsay Thorpe ovat sataprosenttisesti yhteen sopiva, täydellinen superpari. He löysivät toisensa deittipalvelu Edenin erehtymättömän, tekoälyyn pohjautuvan ohjelman avulla. Kun heidät löydetään kuolleina, mitä ilmeisimmin kaksoisitsemurhan tehneinä, entinen FBI-agentti Christopher Lash pyydetään selvittämään tapausta. Umpirakastuneen ja onnelliselta näyttäneen parin kuolema on täysi mysteeri - ainakin siihen asti kun toinen superpari löytyy kuolleena... Lincoln Childin neljännen suomennetun teknotrillerin aiheena on ikivanha kysymys - kuinka löytää täydellinen rakkaus - mutta vastauksen etsimisessä hyödynnetään taitavasti uusinta teknologiaa.

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.

Ilmaston lämpenemistä pohjoisessa Alaskassa tutkiva tiedemiesryhmä kokee jäätikköä tutkiessaan elämänsä yllätyksen. Syvältä jään sisältä löytyy muinaisen kissaeläimen ruumis. Eläin vaikuttaa 10 000 vuotta sitten sukupuuttoon kuolleelta sapelihammastiikeriltä. Tutkimusryhmää sponsoroinut filmiyhtiö haluaa puristaa kaiken hyödyn irti sensaatiomaisesta tiedeuutisesta, ja pian syrjäinen tukikohta vilisee elokuvaväkeä. Filmiryhmän vetäjä, pöyhkeilevä dokumentaristi Emilio Conti aikoo sulattaa eläimen jäävaipastaan suorassa lähetyksessä. H-hetken koittaessa eläimen ruho on kuitenkin kadonnut lukitusta varastorakennuksesta. Varasta ja tämän saalista etsitään ympäri labyrinttimaista tukikohtaa - kunnes yksi filmiryhmän jäsenistä löytyy mitä verisimmällä tavalla surmattuna. Tukikohdan kauhistuneet asukit joutuvat pohtimaan mahdottomalta tuntuvaa vaihtoehtoa: voisiko heidän muinaislöytönsä olla jollain ihmeen keinolla herännyt henkiin? Ja onko kyseessä sapelihammastiikeri laisinkaan - vai jotain paljon, paljon vaarallisempaa?