Gideon's Sword (Gideon Crew #1)

Gideon's Sword by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child is the first book in their new Gideon Crew series. Along with their individual books (Child & Preston) they co-write the Pengergast series.

Gideon Crew has grown up in the shadow of people thinking his father was a traitor. He was killed by a SWAT team after an incident involving a hostage and an encryption code. A few years later, as Gideon's mother was dying, she told him that his father was made a scapegoat and warned the government of the faulty code that lead to the death of 26 undercover agents. She wants Gideon to avenge his father's death and clear their family's name.

Now, after years of searching, Gideon may have found a link to prove his father's innocence. And with the new information he can finally take care of the man who had his father killed.

But someone else is watching Gideon. Someone who sees the skills he has used to track down his father's evidence and the man who hid it. And that someone wants to hire Gideon to get information from someone else.

Preston and Child have created a character with the skills to find his way out of almost any situation. He is not a trained operative, but he is smart and determined. Readers of suspense thrillers have a great new series to follow.

Preston, Douglas and Lincoln Child. (2011). Gideon's Sword. New York: Grand Central Publishing.