Douglas Preston
All Books By Douglas Preston
Beyond the Ice Limit
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: David W. Collins
- Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: May 17, 2016
- Language: English
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3.96(6146 ratings)
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 America. The mission ended in disaster when their ship, the Rolvaag, foundered in a vicious storm in the Antarctic waters and broke apart, sinking-along with its unique cargo-to the ocean floor. One hundred and eight crew members perished, and Eli Glinn was left paralyzed.
But this was not all. The tragedy revealed something truly terrifying: the meteorite they tried to retrieve was not, in fact, simply a rock. Instead, it was a complex organism from the deep reaches of space.
Now, that organism has implanted itself in the sea bed two miles below the surface-and it is growing. If it is not destroyed, the planet will be doomed. There is only one hope: for Glinn and his team to annihilate it, a task which requires Gideon’s expertise with nuclear weapons. But as Gideon and his colleagues soon discover, the “meteorite” has a mind of its own-and it has no intention of going quietly…
Blasphemy
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Scott Sowers
- Length: 13 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: January 08, 2008
- Language: English
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3.71(8324 ratings)
In Douglas Preston’s Blasphemy, 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 black hole? Or is the Torus a Satanic attempt, as a powerful televangelist decries, to challenge God Almighty on the very throne of Heaven?
Twelve scientists under the leadership of Hazelius are sent to the remote mountain to turn it on, and what they discover must be hidden from the world at all costs. Wyman Ford, ex-monk and CIA operative, is tapped to wrest their secret, a secret that will either destroy the world…or save it.
The countdown begins…
... Read moreBloodless
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 13 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 17, 2021
- Language: English
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4.02(6959 ratings)
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: Agent Pendergast faces his most unexpected challenge yet when bloodless bodies begin to appear in Savannah, GA.
A fabulous heist:
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…and into history.
A brutal crime steeped in legend and malevolence:
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 Savannah Vampire.
A case like no other:
As the mystery rises along with the body count, Pendergast and his partner, Agent Coldmoon, race to understand how–or if–these murders are connected to the only unsolved skyjacking in American history. Together, they uncover not just the answer…but an unearthly evil beyond all imagining.
Blue Labyrinth
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Rene Auberjonois
- Length: 14 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 11, 2014
- Language: English
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4.12(15131 ratings)
Special Agent Pendergast-one of the most original, compelling characters in all of contemporary fiction-returns in Preston and Child’s new exhilarating novel
BLUE LABYRINTH
A long-buried family secret has come back to haunt Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast.
It begins with murder. One of Pendergast’s most implacable, most feared enemies is found on his doorstep, dead. Pendergast has no idea who is responsible for the killing, or why the body was brought to his home. The mystery has all the hallmarks of the perfect crime, save for an enigmatic clue: a piece of turquoise lodged in the stomach of the deceased.
The gem leads Pendergast to an abandoned mine on the shore of California’s Salton Sea, which in turn propels him on a journey of discovery deep into his own family’s sinister past. But Pendergast learns there is more at work than a ghastly episode of family history: he is being stalked by a subtle killer bent on vengeance over an ancient transgression. And he soon becomes caught in a wickedly clever plot, which leaves him stricken in mind and body, and propels him toward a reckoning beyond anything he could ever have imagined….
Blue Labyrinth: Booktrack Edition
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Rene Auberjonois
- Length: 14 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: December 13, 2022
- Language: English
Blue Labyrinth: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! *
Special Agent Pendergast-one of the most original, compelling characters in all of contemporary fiction-returns in Preston and Child’s new exhilarating novel BLUE LABYRINTH.
A long-buried family secret has come back to haunt Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast.
It begins with murder. One of Pendergast’s most implacable, most feared enemies is found on his doorstep, dead. Pendergast has no idea who is responsible for the killing, or why the body was brought to his home. The mystery has all the hallmarks of the perfect crime, save for an enigmatic clue: a piece of turquoise lodged in the stomach of the deceased.
The gem leads Pendergast to an abandoned mine on the shore of California’s Salton Sea, which in turn propels him on a journey of discovery deep into his own family’s sinister past. But Pendergast learns there is more at work than a ghastly episode of family history: he is being stalked by a subtle killer bent on vengeance over an ancient transgression. And he soon becomes caught in a wickedly clever plot, which leaves him stricken in mind and body, and propels him toward a reckoning beyond anything he could ever have imagined….
*Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration, so listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout.
Brimstone
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Scott Brick
- Length: 19 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: May 15, 2018
- Language: English
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4.14(32765 ratings)
Brimstone: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!
A body is found in the attic of a fabulous Long Island estate.
There is a claw print scorched into the wall, and the stench of sulfur chokes the air.
When FBI Special Agent Pendergast investigates the gruesome crime, he discovers that thirty years ago four men conjured something unspeakable.
Has the devil come to claim his due?
Some things can’t be undone.
Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration, so listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout.
... Read moreBrimstone
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Scott Brick
- Length: 19 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: December 06, 2011
- Language: English
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4.15(39161 ratings)
There is a claw print scorched into the wall, and the stench of sulfur chokes the air.
When FBI Special Agent Pendergast investigates the gruesome crime, he discovers that thirty years ago four men conjured something unspeakable.
Has the devil come to claim his due?
Some things can’t be undone.
Cemetery Dance
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Rene Auberjonois
- Length: 13 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: May 12, 2009
- Language: English
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4.02(22163 ratings)
William Smithback, a New York Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Eyewitnesses claim, and the security camera confirms, that the assailant was their strange, sinister neighbor–a man who, by all reports, was already dead and buried weeks earlier. While Captain Laura Hayward leads the official investigation, Pendergast and Lieutenant Vincent D’Agosta undertake their own private–and decidedly unorthodox–quest for the truth. Their serpentine journey takes them to an enclave of Manhattan they never imagined could exist: a secretive, reclusive cult of Obeah and vodou which no outsiders have ever survived.
City of Endless Night
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Rene Auberjonois
- Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: January 16, 2018
- Language: English
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4.07(15671 ratings)
Cold Vengeance
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Rene Auberjonois
- Length: 11 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 02, 2011
- Language: English
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4.1(5605 ratings)
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.
Crimson Shore
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Rene Auberjonois
- Length: 10 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 10, 2015
- Language: English
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4.02(12421 ratings)
A secret chamber.
A mysterious shipwreck.
A murder in the desolate salt marshes.
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 skeleton.
Pendergast and Constance soon learn that Exmouth is a town with a very dark and troubled history, and this skeleton may be only the first hint of an ancient transgression, kept secret all these years. But they will discover that the sins of the past are still very much alive. Local legend holds that during the 1692 witch trials in Salem, the real witches escaped, fleeing north to Exmouth and settling deep in the surrounding salt marshes, where they continued to practice their wicked arts. Then, a murdered corpse turns up in the marshes. The only clue is a series of mysterious carvings. Could these demonic symbols bear some relation to the ancient witches’ colony, long believed to be abandoned?
A terrible evil lurks beneath the surface of this sleepy seaside town-one with deep roots in Exmouth’s grim history. And it may be that Constance, with her own troubled past, is the only one who truly comprehends the awful danger that she, Pendergast, and the residents of Exmouth must face . . .
... Read moreCrooked River
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 13 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: February 04, 2020
- Language: English
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4.27(10009 ratings)
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 tropical beach–each one with a crudely severed human foot inside.
A ghastly enigma with no apparent solution. Called away from vacation elsewhere in the state, Agent Pendergast reluctantly agrees to visit the crime scene–and, despite himself, is quickly drawn in by the incomprehensible puzzle. An early pathology report only adds to the mystery. With an ocean of possibilities confronting the investigation, no one is sure what happened, why, or from where the feet originated. And they desperately need to know: are the victims still alive?
A worthy challenge for a brilliant mind. In short order, Pendergast finds himself facing the most complex and inexplicable challenge of his career: a tangled thread of evidence that spans seas and traverses continents, connected to one of the most baffling mysteries in modern medical science. Through shocking twists and turns, all trails lead back to a powerful adversary with a sadistic agenda and who–in a cruel irony–ultimately sees in Pendergast the ideal subject for their malevolent research.
Dance of Death
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Scott Brick
- Length: 16 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 23, 2012
- Language: English
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4.18(26515 ratings)
Dance of Death: Booktrack Edition
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Scott Brick
- Length: 16 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 14, 2023
- Language: English
Dance of Death: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! *
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…
*Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration, so listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout.
Diablo Mesa
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 11 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: February 15, 2022
- Language: English
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4.07(4982 ratings)
#1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child continue with the wildly popular series featuring archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson.
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 obliterated with acid to erase their identities. Special Agent Corrie Swanson is assigned to the case. As Nora’s excavation proceeds, uncovering things both bizarre and seemingly inexplicable, Corrie’s homicide investigation throws open a Pandora’s box of espionage and violence, uncovering bloody traces of a powerful force that will stop at nothing to protect its secrets–and that threatens to engulf them all in an unimaginable fate.
Extraction
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Rene Auberjonois
- Length: 1 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 16, 2012
- Language: English
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3.98(4520 ratings)
From #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child, an all-new short story featuring Agent Pendergast, available only as an ebook and audio download. In New Orleans’ French Quarter, the Tooth Fairy isn’t a benevolent sprite who slips money under your pillow at night….he’s a mysterious old recluse who must be appeased with teeth–lest he extract retribution. When young Diogenes Pendergast loses a tooth, however, his skeptical older brother Aloysius is determined to put the legend to the test…with dire consequences.
... Read moreGideon’s Corpse
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: David W. Collins
- Length: 11 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: January 10, 2012
- Language: English
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3.8(9019 ratings)
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.
Gideon’s Sword
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: John Glover
- Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: February 22, 2011
- Language: English
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3.65(15785 ratings)
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 . . .
Impact
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Scott Sowers
- Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: January 05, 2010
- Language: English
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3.81(9338 ratings)
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.
... Read moreOld Bones
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 10 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 20, 2019
- Language: English
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4.07(11952 ratings)
Benton tells Kelly he has stumbled upon an amazing find: the long-sought diary of one of the victims, which has an enigmatic description of the Lost Camp. Nora agrees to lead an expedition to locate and excavate it-to reveal its long-buried secrets.
Once in the mountains, however, they learn that discovering the camp is only the first step in a mounting journey of fear. For as they uncover old bones, they expose the real truth of what happened, one that is far more shocking and bizarre than mere cannibalism. And when those ancient horrors lead to present-day violence on a grand scale, rookie FBI agent Corrie Swanson is assigned the case…only to find that her first investigation might very well be her last.
Riptide
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 03, 2010
- Language: English
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3.97(15340 ratings)
Still Life with Crows
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Scott Brick
- Length: 15 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: July 05, 2011
- Language: English
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4.2(37173 ratings)
Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy?
Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land?
Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of America’s heartland.
No one is safe.
Still Life with Crows
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Scott Brick
- Length: 15 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: May 15, 2018
- Language: English
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4.2(30705 ratings)
Still Life With Crows: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!
A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground.
Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy?
Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land?
Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of America’s heartland.
No one is safe.
Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration, so listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout.
... Read moreThe Book of the Dead
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Scott Brick
- Length: 15 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: May 30, 2006
- Language: English
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4.16(30348 ratings)
His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime…
A young woman with an extrodinary past, on th edge of a violent breakdown…
An ancient Egyptian tomb with an enigmatic curse, about to be unveiled at a celebrity-studded New York gala…
Memento Mori
The Cabinet of Curiosities
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Jonathan Marosz
- Length: 17 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 20, 2012
- Language: English
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4.26(39477 ratings)
Inside are thirty-six bodies–all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago.
While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings start to terrorize the city.
The nightmare has begun.
Again.
The Cabinet of Curiosities: Booktrack Edition
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Jonathan Marosz
- Length: 17 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: December 07, 2021
- Language: English
In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered.
Inside are thirty-six bodies–all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago.
While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings start to terrorize the city.
The nightmare has begun.
Again.
*Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration, so listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout.
The Cabinet of Dr. Leng
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 14 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: January 17, 2023
- Language: English
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4.43(669 ratings)
- NYT Best Sellers
Following the events of Bloodless, the “exciting” and “nail-biting” new thriller in Preston & Child’s #1 bestselling series will once again feature FBI Special Agent A. X. L. Pendergast and Constance Greene.
Against all odds, Constance has found a way back to the place of her origins, New York City in the late 1800s, and sets off on a quest to prevent the events that lead to the deaths of her sister and brother, and stop Manhattan’s most infamous serial killer, Dr. Enoch Leng of the seminal Pendergast novel The Cabinet of Curiosities, before his nefarious experiments come to fruition.
Meanwhile, in present-day New York, Pendergast is desperate to find a way to reunite with Constance–but will he find a way before it’s too late?
... Read moreThe Codex
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Scott Sowers
- Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2004
- Language: English
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3.9(17609 ratings)
The bestselling coauthor of such page-turning thrillers as Relic and The Cabinet of Curiosities, Douglas Preston now spins an unforgettable tale of greed, adventure, and betrayal in The Codex.
“Greetings from the dead,” declares Maxwell Broadbent on the videotape he left behind after his mysterious disappearance. A notorious treasure hunter and tomb robber, Broadbent accumulated over a half a billion dollars’ worth of priceless art, gems, and artifacts before vanishing—along with his entire collection—from his mansion in New Mexico.
At first, robbery is suspected, but the truth proves far stranger: As a final challenge to his three sons, Broadbent has buried himself and his treasure somewhere in the world, hidden away like an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. If the sons wish to claim their fabulous inheritance, they must find their father’s carefully concealed tomb.
The race is on, but the three brothers are not the only ones competing for the treasure. This secret is so astounding it cannot be kept quiet for long. With half a billion dollars at stake, as well as an ancient Mayan codex that may hold a cure for cancer and other deadly diseases, others soon join the hunt—and some of them will stop at nothing to claim the grave goods.
... Read moreThe Ice Limit
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Scott Brick
- Length: 16 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 03, 2010
- Language: English
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4(16566 ratings)
The Kraken Project
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Scott Sowers
- Length: 12 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: May 13, 2014
- Language: English
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3.76(4205 ratings)
Wyman Ford is back again in The Kraken Project, the thrilling novel from New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston
NASA is building a probe to be splashed down in the Kraken Mare, the largest sea on Saturn’s great moon, Titan. It is one of the most promising habitats for extraterrestrial life in the solar system, but the surface is unpredictable and dangerous, requiring the probe to contain artificial intelligence software. To this end, Melissa Shepherd, a brilliant programmer, has developed “Dorothy,” a powerful, self-modifying AI whose true potential is both revolutionary and terrifying. When miscalculations lead to a catastrophe during testing, Dorothy flees into the internet.
Former CIA agent Wyman Ford is tapped to track down the rogue AI. As Ford and Shepherd search for Dorothy, they realize that her horrific experiences in the wasteland of the Internet have changed her in ways they can barely imagine. And they’re not the only ones looking for the wayward software: the AI is also being pursued by a pair of Wall Street traders, who want to capture her code and turn her into a high-speed trading bot. Traumatized, angry, and relentlessly hunted, Dorothy has an extraordinary revelation–and devises a plan. As the pursuit of Dorothy converges on a deserted house on the coast of Northern California, Ford must face the ultimate question: is rescuing Dorothy the right thing? Is the AI bent on saving the world… or on wiping out the cancer that is humankind?
... Read moreThe Lost Island
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: David W. Collins
- Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 05, 2014
- Language: English
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3.77(8182 ratings)
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 treasure map dating back to the time of the ancient Greeks. As they ponder the strange map, they realize that the treasure it leads to is no ordinary fortune. It is something far more precious: an amazing discovery that could perhaps even save Gideon’s life.
Together with his new partner, Amy, Gideon follows a trail of cryptic clues to an unknown island in a remote corner of the Caribbean Sea. There, off the hostile and desolate Mosquito Coast, the pair realize the extraordinary treasure they are hunting conceals an even greater shock-a revelation so profound that it may benefit the entire human race . . . if Gideon and Amy can survive.
... Read moreThe Monster of Florence
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 10, 2008
- Language: English
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3.76(5836 ratings)
In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to move his family to Italy. Then he discovered that the olive grove in front of their 14th century farmhouse had been the scene of the most infamous double-murders in Italian history, committed by a serial killer known as the Monster of Florence. Preston, intrigued, meets Italian investigative journalist Mario Spezi to learn more.
The Obsidian Chamber
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Rene Auberjonois
- Length: 12 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 18, 2016
- Language: English
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3.98(9807 ratings)
After a harrowing, otherworldly confrontation on the shores of Exmouth, Massachussetts, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is missing, presumed dead.
A SHOCKING RETURN
Sick with grief, Pendergast’s ward, Constance, retreats to her chambers beneath the family mansion at 891 Riverside Drive–only to be taken captive by a shadowy figure from the past.
AN INTERNATIONAL MANHUNT
Proctor, Pendergast’s longtime bodyguard, springs to action, chasing Constance’s kidnapper through cities, across oceans, and into wastelands unknown.
BUT IN A WORLD OF BLACK AND WHITE, NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS
And by the time Proctor discovers the truth, a terrifying engine has stirred-and it may already be too late . . .
The Pharaoh Key
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: David W. Collins
- Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 12, 2018
- Language: English
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3.81(4544 ratings)
The Scorpion’s Tail
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 11 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: January 12, 2021
- Language: English
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4.25(6921 ratings)
From #1 bestselling authors Preston & Child comes a thrilling novel following archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson as they work together to solve a twisted crime that reaches far beyond any of their worst fears.
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 is assigned what seems to her a throwaway case: to ID the body and determine cause of death. She brings archaeologist Nora Kelly to excavate the body and lend her expertise to the investigation, and together they uncover something unexpected and shocking: the deceased apparently died in agony, in a fetal position, skin coming off in sheets, with a rictus of horror frozen on his face.
Hidden on the corpse lies a 16th century Spanish gold cross of immense value.
When they at last identify the body — and the bizarre cause of death — Corrie and Nora open a door into a terrifying, secret world of ancient treasure and modern obsession: a world centered on arguably the most defining, frightening, and transformative moment in American history.
The Wheel of Darkness
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Rene Auberjonois
- Length: 12 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 28, 2007
- Language: English
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3.96(24577 ratings)
An ancient Tibetan box, its contents unknown, sealed with a terrifying warning…
An FBI agent destined to confront what he fears most–himself…
Thunderhead
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Scott Brick
- Length: 17 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 03, 2010
- Language: English
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4.12(25905 ratings)
Archaeologist Nora Kelly is adrift in her career and her personal life when a violent, inexplicable incident leaves her in possession of a mysterious letter. Written by her father, who vanished sixteen years ago in the remote desert, the letter reveals the location of a legendary site hidden in the red rock canyon country of southern Utah: Quivira, the Anasazi Indians’ wondrous lost city of gold.–BOOK JACKET. “Convinced that her father truly had found Quivira, Nora puts together an expedition and takes a team up Lake Powell to the mouth of Serpentine Canyon. In the stark labyrinth of canyons and slickrock desert she will find the answer to both her greatest hopes and her deepest nightmare. For hidden in the shadows of the sunbaked cliffs are untold treasures, the solution to the greatest riddle of American archaeology – and implacable, suffocating death.”–BOOK JACKET.
... Read moreTwo Graves
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Rene Auberjonois
- Length: 16 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: December 11, 2012
- Language: English
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4.06(17778 ratings)
After his wife, Helen, is brazenly abducted before his eyes, Special Agent Pendergast furiously pursues the kidnappers, chasing them across the country and into Mexico. But then, things go terribly, tragically wrong; the kidnappers escape; and a shattered Pendergast retreats to his New York apartment and shuts out the world.
But when a string of bizarre murders erupts across several Manhattan hotels-perpetrated by a boy who seems to have an almost psychic ability to elude capture-NYPD Lieutenant D’Agosta asks his friend Pendergast for help. Reluctant at first, Pendergast soon discovers that the killings are a message from his wife’s kidnappers. But why a message? And what does it mean?
When the kidnappers strike again at those closest to Pendergast, the FBI agent, filled anew with vengeful fury, sets out to track down and destroy those responsible. His journey takes him deep into the trackless forests of South America, where he ultimately finds himself face to face with an old evil that-rather than having been eradicated-is stirring anew… and with potentially world-altering consequences.
Confucius once said: “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, first dig two graves.” Pendergast is about to learn the hard way just how true those words still ring.
... Read moreTyrannosaur Canyon
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Scott Sowers
- Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: September 01, 2005
- Language: English
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3.84(17681 ratings)
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 the acclaimed bestselling author, hailed by Publisher’s Weekly as “better than Crichton.”
Verses for the Dead
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Rene Auberjonois
- Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: December 31, 2018
- Language: English
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4.22(7890 ratings)
White Fire
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Rene Auberjonois
- Length: 12 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: December 12, 2017
- Language: English
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4.1(18592 ratings)
White Fire: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!
Past and present collide as Special Agent Pendergast uncovers mysterious connections between a string of 19th century bear attacks in a Colorado mining town, a fabled, long-lost Sherlock Holmes story, and a deadly present-day arsonist.
In 1876, in a mining camp called Roaring Fork in the Colorado Rockies, eleven miners were killed by a rogue grizzly bear. Corrie Swanson has arranged to examine the miners’ remains. When she makes a shocking discovery, town leaders try to stop her from exposing their community’s dark and bloody past.
Just as Special Agent Pendergast of the FBI arrives to rescue his protege, the town comes under siege by a murderous arsonist who-with brutal precision-begins burning down multimillion-dollar mansions with the families locked inside. Drawn deeper into the investigation, Pendergast discovers a long-lost Sherlock Holmes story that may be the key to solving both the mystery of the long-dead miners and the modern-day killings as well.
Now, with the ski resort snowed in and under savage attack-and Corrie’s life suddenly in grave danger-Pendergast must solve the enigma of the past before the town of the present goes up in flames.
Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration, so listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout.
... Read moreWhite Fire
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Rene Auberjonois
- Length: 12 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 12, 2013
- Language: English
In 1876, in a mining camp called Roaring Fork in the Colorado Rockies, eleven miners were killed by a rogue grizzly bear. Corrie Swanson has arranged to examine the miners’ remains. When she makes a shocking discovery, town leaders try to stop her from exposing their community’s dark and bloody past.
Just as Special Agent Pendergast of the FBI arrives to rescue his protege, the town comes under siege by a murderous arsonist who-with brutal precision-begins burning down multimillion-dollar mansions with the families locked inside. Drawn deeper into the investigation, Pendergast discovers a long-lost Sherlock Holmes story that may be the key to solving both the mystery of the long-dead miners and the modern-day killings as well.
Now, with the ski resort snowed in and under savage attack-and Corrie’s life suddenly in grave danger-Pendergast must solve the enigma of the past before the town of the present goes up in flames.