Douglas Preston
Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Description
At the tender age of 12, Gideon Crew witnessed the brutal murder of his father, a scientist wrongly framed by the US government, and shot down by police during a hostage crisis. More than 20 years later, Gideon finally gets his revenge and fulfills the promise that he made to his mother on her death bed to clear their family name.
Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 2
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2012
Description
A nuclear scientist turns homicidal, taking a family hostage. Gideon Crew, a colleague of his 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 radioactive, and that he'd recently embraced Islamic extremism, all hell breaks loose.
20) White fire
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 13
Publisher
Clipper Large Print
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Large print ed. Pbk
Description
Forensic pathologist Corrie Swanson investigates a brutal crime from 136 years ago. The key to the crime may just lie in a lost Sherlock Holmes story, a tale allegedly so horrifying that its author never dared publish it.