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Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 5
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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...
Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"At age 12, Gideon Crew witnessed the brutal murder of his father. More than 20 years later, Gideon gets his revenge. But then a mysterious witness steps forward to confront Gideon on his crime---and offer him the chance of a lifetime"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 11
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 18
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm
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 them--along...
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 15
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A seemingly straightforward private case turns out to be much more complicated--and sinister--than Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast ever could have anticipated. Pendergast, together with his ward Constance Greene, travels to the quaint seaside village of Exmouth, Massachusetts, to investigate the theft of a priceless wine collection. But inside the wine cellar, they find something considerably more disturbing: a bricked-up niche that once held a crumbling...
6) Blasphemy
Author
Series
Wyman Ford novels volume 2
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
414 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The world's biggest supercollider, locked in an Arizona mountain, was built to reveal the secrets of the very moment of creation: the Big Bang itself.The Torus is the most expensive machine ever created by humankind, run by the world's most powerful supercomputer. It is the brainchild of Nobel Laureate William North Hazelius. Will the Torus divulge the mysteries of the creation of the universe? Or will it, as some predict, suck the earth into a mini...
Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 3
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Gideon 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...
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 21
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Formats
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.
Constance Greene has found a way back to the place of her origins, New York City in the late 1800s. She sets off on a quest to prevent the events that lead to the deaths of her sister and brother. But Manhattan's...
9) Diablo Mesa
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 3
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lucas Tappan, a wealthy and eccentric billionaire and founder of Icarus Space Systems, approaches the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute with an outlandish proposal--to finance a careful, scientific excavation of the Roswell Incident site, where a UFO is alleged to have crashed in 1947. A skeptical Nora Kelly, to her great annoyance, is tasked with the job. Nora's excavation immediately uncovers two murder victims buried at the site, faces and hands...
10) Bloodless
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 20
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the evening of November 24, 1971, D. B. Cooper hijacked Flight 305--Portland to Seattle--with a fake bomb, collected a ransom of $200,000, and then parachuted from the rear of the plane, disappearing into the night. Fifty years later, Agent Pendergast takes on a bizarre and gruesome case: in the ghost-haunted city of Savannah, Georgia, bodies are found with no blood left in their veins--sowing panic and reviving whispered tales of the infamous...
11) Old bones
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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...
12) Cemetery dance
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 9
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
435 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
FBI special agent Aloysius Pendergast and lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta think they have an open and shut murder case when they receive footage of the killer leaving the victim's apartment, but things are not so clear when they learn the suspect actually died two weeks before the crime.
Author
Series
Wyman Ford novels volume 4
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is designing a probe which will be dropped into the Kraken Mare, one of the methane seas of Titan. There, it will embark on a journey of exploration. As the probe is being tested at Goddard, things go awry, and an explosion kills seven scientists. The AI program in the probe, a powerful, self-modifying AI called "Dorothy," flees into the Internet. Series character Wyman Ford is tapped by the president's science...
14) Impact
Author
Series
Wyman Ford novels volume 3
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
After a meteorite passes straight through the earth, Wyman Ford is called on to investigate the exit hole. What he discovers shatters all that is known about the universe. His investigation leads him to one of Mars' moons where a structure in the shape of a gun is found. It had been built to destroy any intelligent life that might challenge it, but who built it? Since it obviously poses a threat to Earth, Ford's team races against time to dismantle...
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Following the acclaimed debut of Old Bones, this second "happily anticipated" new thriller in Preston & Child's series features Nora Kelly, archaeologist at the Santa Fe Archeological Institute, and rookie FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, as they team up to solve a mystery that quickly escalates into nightmare (Booklist).
A mummified corpse, over half a century old, is found in the cellar of an abandoned building in a remote New Mexico ghost town. Corrie...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 326 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Douglas Preston takes readers on an adventure deep into the Honduran jungle in this riveting, danger-filled true story about the discovery of an ancient lost civilization"--
Since the days of Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. In 1940 journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts...
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