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Preston, Douglas Blasphemy
Forge Books December 30, 20 0-7653-4966-3 / 9780765349668 Paperback As New
A crisp clean softcover (as new). Like Isabella, a giant superconducting supercollider particle accelerator, the thought-provoking new thriller from bestseller Preston (Tyrannosaur Canyon) takes a while to power up, but once it does, this baby roars. The ostensible goal of Isabella's creator, physicist Gregory North Hazelius, is to discover new forms of energy, but what he really wants is to talk to God. The project, located inside Red Mesa (a five-hundred-square-mile tableland on the Navajo Indian Reservation), is behind schedule, so presidential science adviser Stanton Lockwood hires ex-CIA man Wyman Ford to go to Red Mesa and find out what's causing the holdup. Meanwhile, a Navajo medicine man, a televangelist and a pastor who runs a failed mission on the reservation are gearing up to pull the plug on Isabella before she destroys the earth. Science has often tangled with religion in this genre, but Preston puts his own philosophical spin on the usual proceedings, and when he gets his irate villagers with their burning torches headed for the castle, the pages simply fly.
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550.00 JPY
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Preston, Douglas Dance of Death
Grand Central Publishing 2006 0-446-61709-1 / 9780446617093 Paperback Very Good+
Picking up two months after the events chronicled in Brimstone (2004), whic h saw the untimely demise of popular series hero FBI Special Agent Penderga st, this new novel by the Preston-Child team brings together characters fro m previous novels. The people closest to Pendergast are dying in horrible w ays, and only one man can be responsible: Diogenes, Pendergast's long-lost brother, who has supposedly been dead for years. Meanwhile, at the New York Museum of Natural History, an internal battle rages over the rightful owne rship of some ancient relics. Will these two stories link up? Well, of cour se, no surprise there. It's how they link up that packs the surprises.
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500.00 JPY
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Preston, Douglas Mount Dragon
Tor Books June 15, 1997 0-8125-6437-5 / 9780812564372 Paperback Fine
Guy Carson feels honored to be one of the few genetic scientists selected t o work at Mount Dragon, Gene Dyne's heavily guarded compound in the New Mex ican desert. The task: to defeat the influenza virus through permanent alte ration of the DNA of the human race. The problem: previous attempts have re sulted in the creation of an absolutely deadly form of the virus rather tha n immunity. Guy's job is to solve this problem. He willingly endures the st ress and other discomforts of working in a biohazard unit, until he realize s that Gene Dyne's motives are less than altruistic and that the company wi ll stop at nothing to turn a profit. Reading like a fictionalized rock-'em, sock-'em version of Richard Preston's The Hot Zone,this thriller from the coauthors of Relic is sure to satisfy. Highly recommended for popular ficti on collections.
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600.00 JPY
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Preston, Douglas Riptide
Warner Books July 1, 1999 0-446-60717-7 / 9780446607179 Paperback Very Good
The legend of Red Ned Ockham, a vicious 17th-century pirate, has cost many men their lives as they have tried to locate the billions of dollars worth of booty said to be at the bottom of Ragged Island's Water Pit. The current owner, Dr. Malin Hatch, lost his brother and father to the island off the coast of Maine, and it is with great reluctance that he allows Captain Neid elman and his crew to begin a new quest for the treasure. The story mixes a bit of historical fact about a pit on Oak Island, Nova Scotia, with the ex citement of a high-tech treasure hunt, complete with adrenaline-laced actio n and the age-old battle of good versus evil. Hatch, as the understated her o, finally makes his own peace with his guilt over his brother's death. Nei delman and his evil sidekick, Streeter, personify the typical fools who get too wrapped up in greed, forgetting all decency. A geologist and a histori an add personality, depth, and believability to the plot. An adventure of i magination, spiced with thrills, sprinkled with glimpses of history, and pe rfected with nonstop action.
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450.00 JPY
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Preston, Douglas The Book of the Dead
Vision July 1, 2007 0-446-61850-0 / 9780446618502 Paperback Fine
The third in a trilogy, this title picks up in the middle of the story. Set , in part, in the American Museum of Natural History, where the tomb of Sen ef is reopened after 70 years, the story involves a villain named Diogenes, who plots murder and mayhem to destroy New York City society while Aloysiu s, his FBI agent brother, seeks to thwart him.
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Preston, Douglas The Cabinet of Curiosities
Warner Books June 1, 2003 0-446-61123-9 / 9780446611237 Paperback Very Good+
In seven bestselling novels (from Relic to The Ice Limit), Preston and Chil d have delivered a body of science-based thrillers that for high excitement and robust scientific imaginings rival those of Michael Crichton. Their ei ghth outing is another richly entertaining tale, about the hunt for a seemi ngly immortal serial killer at work in New York City. Preston and Child rev ive characters and settings from earlier novels, often a red flag that auth orial imagination is tiring; but in this case, all comes together with zing . There's FBI Special Agent Pendergast (from Relic), pale, refined and poss essed of a Holmes-like brain; dogged New York Times reporter William Smithb ack Jr. and his fiery erstwhile girlfriend, Nora Kelly of the New York (rea d American, where Preston used to work) Museum of Natural History (both cha racters from Thunderhead with the museum the setting for Relic). The action begins when groundbreaking for an apartment tower in downtown Manhattan re veals a charnel house of murder victims from the late 19th century. Enter P endergast, who for unexplained reasons taps Kelly to study the remains befo re the site is stripped by the building's developer, a Donald Trump-type wh o, with the mayor's backing, will accept no construction delays. As Kelly c alls on Smithback for investigative help, the city is struck by killings th at duplicate the earlier murders, with the victims' spinal cords ripped awa y and clues pointing to a 19th-century scientist who sought the secret of i mmortality. Featuring fabulous locales, colorful characters, pointed riffs on city and museum politics, cool forensic and paleontological speculation
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Preston, Douglas Thunderhead
Warner Books June 1, 2000 0-446-60837-8 / 9780446608374 Paperback Very Good
Checking on disturbing noises at her family's abandoned ranch house, Nora K elly experiences a frightening encounter with two entities that resemble ex tremely large and ferocious wolves (in reality men disguised as skinwalkers ), barely escaping with her life. On her frantic flight toward safety, she accidentally stumbles across the last letter her father wrote, describing t he route he had taken in finding the lost legendary Anasazi city of gold, Q uivivra. Nora finds a financial backer and puts together an expedition staf fed with experts to help her find the site once more. The group encounters monumental natural obstacles and deep personality conflicts. And once the s kinwalkers reappear, the eerie power of evil seems to take over. Members of the team begin to die mysteriously, and when a flash flood hits the canyon , the body count rises. The delicate balance of good and evil in the world serves as the major theme. The adventure occurs amid the beauty and spectac ular dangers of the harsh environment, inspiring and frightening to behold. The constant challenge of staying alive keeps the excitement sharp.
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430.00 JPY
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