Blue Labyrinth
Kirkus Reviews 2014-09-28 Preston and Child (White Fire, 2013, etc.) return with another adventure for modern crime fiction's most esoteric detective, FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast. Badged by the FBI but given free rein, wealthy as a wizard Wall Street trader, intelligent enough to make Mensa members feel inferior, master of exotic Chongg Ran meditation, Pendergast, […]
The Lost Island
Publishers Weekly 05/12/2014 In Preston and Child’s sparkling third Gideon Crew novel (after 2012’s Gideon’s Corpse), Eli Glinn of Effective Engineering Solutions orders Crew to steal the Book of Kells, “the finest illuminated book in existence,†from New York’s Morgan Library, where it’s on loan from the Irish government—and protected by a highly sophisticated security […]
White Fire
Publishers Weekly ★ 09/02/2013 Sherlock Holmes fans will relish Preston and Child’s 13th novel featuring eccentric FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast (after 2012’s Two Graves), one of their best in this popular series. In the prologue, set in 1889 at a London restaurant, Oscar Wilde not only advises Conan Doyle on how to improve the character […]
Two Graves
Library Journal In this conclusion to the authors' Helen trilogy (Fever Dream; Cold Vengeance), Special Agent Pendergast finally discovers what happened to his wife, Helen, who was supposedly mauled by a lion while game hunting in Africa 15 years ago but who may have been kidnapped and forced to collaborate in her own death. Having […]
Gideon's Corpse
Publishers Weekly Fans of Preston and Child’s bestselling Aloysius Pendergast novels (Relic, etc.) may want to take a pass on the unremarkable second Gideon Crew thriller (after 2011’s Gideon’s Sword), whose lead could be cut-and-pasted into any number of books by less gifted genre writers. A rare medical disorder has left Crew, a private contractor […]
Cold Vengeance
Library Journal: Pendergast is seriously wounded on a trip with brother-in-law Judson Esterhazy, who tells Pendergast that his wife, Helen, is still alive and then abandons him. Now Pendergast has a reason to live—he starts hunting for Helen and thereby upsets a shady international organization no end. This is the second in a trilogy about […]
Pendergast : the beginning
Gideon's Sword
Library Journal Preston and Child have written 14 thrillers featuring somewhat restrained investigators (FBI Agent Pendergast and Lieutenant D'Agosta). Here, the duo kick off an action-packed new series introducing Gideon Crew, a brilliant young physicist and con artist on a mission to avenge his father's murder. Upon earning his doctorate, Crew works at the Los […]
The Angel of Vengeance
Cemetery Dance
Jeff Ayers – Library Journal In his latest outing, Agent Pendergast (The Wheel of Darkness) and partner Lieutenant D'Agosta probe the murder of a reporter they both admired and considered a friend. The evidence appears to be a slam dunk because the perpetrator was seen by several people who knew him and appears on security […]