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Gideon's Corpse

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Author: Preston, Douglas
Child, Lincoln
Series title:Gideon Crew Ser.
ISBN:978-0-446-56437-3
Publication Date:Jan 2012
Publisher:Grand Central Publishing
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $26.99
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:368
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Thrillers / General
Fiction / Thrillers / Terrorism
Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.5 x 9.5 x 1.25 Inches
Book Weight:1.27 Pounds
Author Biography
Preston, Douglas (Author)
Douglas Jerome Preston was born on May 20, 1956 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He received a B.A. in English literature from Pomona College in 1978. His career began at the American Museum of Natural History, where he worked as an editor and writer from 1978 to 1985. He also was a lecturer in English at Princeton University.

He became a full-time writer of both fiction and nonfiction books in 1986. Many of his fiction works are co-written with Lincoln Child including Relic, Riptide, Thunderhead, The Wheel of Darkness, Cemetery Dance, and Gideon's Corpse. His nonfiction works include Dinosaurs in the Attic; Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the American Southwest in Pursuit of Coronado; Talking to the Ground; and The Royal Road. He has written for numerous magazines including The New Yorker; Natural History; Harper's; Smithsonian; National Geographic; and Travel and Leisure. He became a New York Times Best Selling author with his titles Two Graves and Crimson Shores which he co-wrote with Lincoln Child, and his titles White Fire, The Lost Island Blue Labyrinth and The Lost City of the Monkey God.

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