Preston, Douglas J
Summary: Recounts how the author and a team of scientists discovered a legendary sacred city, the Lost City of the Monkey God, hidden deep in the Honduran jungle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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Summary: A CIA operative is sent to a remote Arizona mountain with a group of scientists to turn on the world's biggest supercollider. His mission: to discover a secret that will either destroy the world ... or save it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2008
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Summary: When New York City construction workers uncover the remains of thirty-six people murdered and dismembered over 130 years ago, archaeologist Nora Kelly and Special Agent Pedergast set out to investigate the killings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2002
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Summary: After New York Times reporter William Smithback and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Pendergast--the world's most enigmatic FBI Special Agent--returns to New York City to investigate a murderous Obeah cult.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1992
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Summary: "FBI Special Agent Pendergast is pitted against his most personal foe: His brother, Diogenes, has planned a horrendous crime and is framing Pendergast for a series of terrible murders."--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2005
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Summary: With Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta's assistance, Pendergast embarks on a quest to uncover the mystery of his wife's murder. As he probes more deeply into the riddle--the answer to which is revealed in a night of shocking violence, deep in the Louisiana bayou--he finds himself faced with an even greater question: who was the woman he married?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2010
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Summary: A top nuclear scientist turns homicidal, taking an innocent family hostage at gunpoint. Gideon Crew, a colleague of the scientist at Los Alamos, is called in to talk the man down. But the standoff ends in an explosion of violence. When the authorities discover the scientist's body is intensely radioactive, and that he had recently embraced Islamic extremism, all hell breaks loose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2012
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Summary: NASA is designing a probe-raft-which will be dropped into the Kraken Mare. There, it will embark on a journey of exploration. A NASA team led by Melissa Veld develops a powerful, AI software program to operate the raft autonomously. As the probe is being tested an explosion kills seven scientists. The AI program in the raft, called 'Jane,' flees into the Internet. Wyman Ford is tapped by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: NASA is designing a probe-raft-which will be dropped into the Kraken Mare, the largest sea on Saturn's great moon Titan. There, it will embark on a journey of exploration. A NASA team led by Melissa Shepherd has developed "Dorothy," a powerful, self-modifying AI software program to operate the raft autonomously. As the probe is being tested an explosion kills seven scientists. The AI program in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2014
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Summary: After being tasked with stealing a page from a priceless, ancient book, brilliant scientist and master thief Gideon Crew discovers a hidden map on the back of the book's parchment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub 2014
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Summary: While on a grand tour Pendergast and Constance learn that a rare and dangerous artifact the monks have been guarding for generations has been mysteriously stolen. Pendergast takes up the search which leads them to the maiden voyage of the Queen Victoria.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2007
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Summary: That thing is growing again. We must destroy it. The time to act is now... With these words begins Gideon Crew's latest, most dangerous, most high-stakes assignment yet. Failure will mean nothing short of the end of humankind on earth. Five years ago, the mysterious and inscrutable head of Effective Engineering Solutions, Eli Glinn, led a mission to recover a gigantic meteorite--the largest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2016
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Summary: A CIA operative is sent to a remote Arizona mountain with a group of scientists to turn on the world's biggest supercollider. His mission: to discover a secret that will either destroy the world...or save it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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Summary: A legendary heist: On the evening of November 24, 1971, D.B. Cooper hijacked Flight 305, Portland to Seattle, with a fake bomb, collected a ransom of $200,000, and parachuted into the night, never to be seen again. Perhaps. A brutal crime steeped in malevolence: Fifty years later, Agent Pendergast takes on a bizarre and gruesome case: in the ghost-haunted city of Savannah, Georgia, bodies are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2006
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Summary: In the wake of a brutal attack on a prominent Manhattan journalist and his wife, clues identify the assailant as a man who had been believed dead, in a case that prompts Captain Hayward, Pendergast, and D'Agosta to infiltrate a deadly cult.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2009
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Summary: "In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their last campsite, searchers found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee barefoot to certain death in a blizzard. Despite a diligent search, only six bodies were found, two violently crushed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their final campsite, searchers found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee barefoot to certain death in a blizzard. Despite a diligent search, only six bodies were found, two violently crushed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central 2023
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Summary: When miscalculations lead to a catastrophe during the testing of an artificial intelligence designed for a NASA probe, the AI escapes to the internet. Now the programmer who created "Dorothy" must team up with former CIA agent Wyman Ford to locate her before something devastating happens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is designing a probe which will be dropped into the Kraken Mare, one of the methane seas of Titan. There, it will embark on a journey of exploration. As the probe is being tested at Goddard, things go awry, and an explosion kills seven scientists. The AI program in the probe, a powerful, self-modifying AI called "Dorothy," flees into the Internet. Series...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Since the days of Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. In 1940 journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City-- but then committed suicide without revealing its location. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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Summary: Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome Historian, Guy Porter, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Guy tells his story--one involving the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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Summary: Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief, intrepid adventurer--is shocked when his former employer, Eli Glinn, vanishes without a trace, and Glinn's high-tech lab Effective Engineering Solutions shuts down seemingly overnight. Fresh off a diagnosis that gives him only months to live, Crew is contacted by one of his former coworkers at EES, Manuel Garza, who has a bead on one final...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018