The Wheel of Darkness

The Wheel of Darkness

by Douglas Preston (Author), Lincoln Child (Author), Lincoln Child (Author), Douglas Preston (Author), Douglas Preston (Author), Lincoln Child (Author)

Synopsis

Perched like a black crow on a crag in the most hostile depths of the Himalayas stands a monastery. For a thousand years the monks have kept guard. Now their sanctum has been violated, the secret carried off. After a millennium of hiding from the world, the guardians of the treasure will have to turn to an outsider for help. Luckily Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast is no stranger. Having trained body and mind in Tibet, he knows the land well. But neither he nor his ward, Constance, are prepared for the truth about what the monks have been protecting. The pursuit of the stolen artefact takes Pendergast and Constance far from the snowy wastes, to where the largest-ever ocean liner is preparing for her maiden voyage. As Pendergast and Constance board, they know they are joined by a cargo of secrets and murderers. As the ship slips into the night, it becomes a deadly race to recover the secret of the monks, or blackness to threaten to fall not just over the ship, but the wider world A stunning dance of death and mystery, THE WHEEL OF DARKNESS takes the most unusual investigator around on his most thrilling case yet

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 398
Publisher: Orion
Published: 14 Aug 2008

ISBN 10: 0752882813
ISBN 13: 9780752882819
Book Overview: Combining history, breakneck adventure and mystery, THE WHEEL OF DARKNESS is pitch-perfect commercial thriller writing. The success of authors like James Rollins, Raymond Khoury, and of course, Dan Brown, has grown the market for this kind of fast-paced adventure thrillers. Preston & Child's THE BOOK OF THE DEAD spent 7 weeks in the New York Times bestseller charts. They are fast becoming one of the most successful writer pairings in the USA and receive great reviews: 'Dynamic duo Preston and Child once again demonstrate their mastery of the genre ... The thrillfest runs full force to the very last page' Kirkus Reviews. 'Bestsellers Preston and Child have come up with another gripping, action-packed page-turner' Publishers Weekly. 'Ingenious ... the literary equivalent to an event movie' Washington Post.

Author Bio
Douglas Preston is a regular contributor to the New Yorker. Lincoln Child is a former book editor at St. Martin's Press and has published numerous short-story anthologies. Together they are the co-authors of a series of bestselling novels, including the Agent Pendergast adventures. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child are the NY Times bestselling co-authors of a string of bestselling action adventure and thriller novels, including the Agent Pendergast and Gideon Crew adventures. Douglas Preston lives on the coast of Maine, while Lincoln Child lives in New Jersey.