by Douglas Preston (Author), Douglas Preston (Author), Douglas Preston (Author)
When a team of archaeologists is savagely massacred in the Amazon Basin, all that survives are several boxes of relics and plant specimens. When the relics finally find their way to a museum in New York there are strange repercussions.
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 480
Edition: Reissue
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 31 Oct 2003
ISBN 10: 0812543262
ISBN 13: 9780812543261
What might happen if a creature from Jurassic Park came to New York City. --The Chicago Tribune
Wildly cool...Thrill hounds couldn't ask for a creepier environment...a thriller staged in the world's scariest building, with no room for the squeamish. --Kirkus Reviews
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child are the co-authors of the Pendergast series of thrillers, including such best-selling titles as Fever Dream, The Book of the Dead, and The Wheel of Darkness. Relic became a number one box office hit movie.
Douglas Preston's solo novels include the New York Times bestsellers Impact, Blasphemy, The Codex, and Tyrannosaur Canyon. His nonfiction book, The Monster of Florence, is being made into a film starring George Clooney. Preston is an expert long-distance horseman, a member of the elite Long Riders Guild, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He has traveled to remote parts of the world as an archaeological correspondent for The New Yorker. He also worked as an editor and writer at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. Preston is the Co-president of International Thriller Writers, and serves on the Governing Council of the Authors Guild.
Lincoln Child is the author of the bestselling Utopia, Death Match, and the Jeremy Logan series. He has also edited numerous ghost and horror anthologies, including Dark Company and Dark Banquet. He lives with his wife and daughter in Morristown, New Jersey.