Preston & Child break through with ‘Relic’ (1995)
Preston & Child flashback (Book review): The authors invent modern museum horror with the nooks, crannies and scares in their debut team-up.
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Preston & Child break through with ‘Relic’ (1995)
Preston & Child’s ‘Old Bones’ is gripping, creepy
Book review: Nora, Corrie and cannibalism star in Preston & Child’s gripping and creepy novel.
Preston & Child’s ‘Verses for the Dead’ explores southern Florida and a puzzling string of deaths (Book review)
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child give Agent Pendergast a fresh start of sorts in his 18th novel, “Verses for the Dead” (December, hardcover). Series like the Constance trilogy and the Helen trilogy are conclusions to […]
Preston & Child take readers to Egypt and through the sands of time in the gripping ‘Pharaoh Key’ (Book review)
It has become comfortingly familiar at this point: Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child take us – via their adventurous leads – to some corner of the Earth that still holds mysteries in the 21st century. […]
Preston & Child get their groove back with ‘City of Endless Night’ (Book review)
After the often credulity-stretching “Obsidian Chamber” (2016), Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child get back on track with “City of Endless Night” (January, hardcover), their 17th Pendergast novel. As the evocative title suggests, the action takes […]
‘The Relic’ reviews
John’s “The Relic” flashback review, Sept. 27, 2020 “The Relic” – The book by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child is the scariest novel ever written, so there was really no way director Peter Hyams could […]
Lincoln Child treks through foreboding Adirondacks in brisk ‘Full Wolf Moon’ (Book review)
Lincoln Child has already shown his skills in the “sense of place” adventure genre with the likes of “Deep Storm” (the ocean floor), “Terminal Freeze” (the Alaskan tundra) and “The Third Gate” (the swamps of […]
Douglas Preston’s ‘Lost City of the Monkey God’ a gripping chronicle of archaeology, history (Book review)
“The Lost City of the Monkey God” (January, hardcover) looks from its cover like the latest Douglas Preston thriller, perhaps along the lines of “The Codex,” something about tromping through Central America in search of a […]
‘The Obsidian Chamber’ is Preston & Child’s craziest ride
Book review: The 16th Agent Pendergast novel is Preston & Child’s craziest ride, but it’s also a key Constance Greene novel.
Preston & Child’s ‘Beyond the Ice Limit’ blends familiar sci-fi themes into a fun, but too shallow, ride (Book review)
After receiving “many thousands” of letters and emails asking for a sequel to “The Ice Limit” (2000) (as they recount in an author’s note), Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child finally go “Beyond the Ice Limit” (May 2016, […]