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.

Terminal Freeze

Terminal Freeze is the latest thriller by Lincoln Child.

A team of scientists is above the Arctic circle studying a melting glacier. They are being funded by a media conglomerate that has final say if they discover anything interesting. But so far, the melting ice, though interesting to the scientists studying it, is not documentary film material.

That all changes as a large piece of ice calves off of the face of the glacier and a cave is revealed. While exploring the cave the scientists discover the body of an animal frozen under the ice. By the eyes and what little can be seen without excavation it appears to be a sabre tooth tiger.

Now a whole film crew is on its way to capture the excitement of science at work. The plan is to defrost the beast and reveal it live on national television.

Before the beast can be melted the scientists start to believe that it is too big to be a sabre tooth tiger. It looks to be an undiscovered predator that, according to some theories of evolution, was created solely to kill - likely to thin a population of other creature that was too plentiful. And based on the type of ice and the speed with which it froze, there is possibility that the creature could be in a suspended state and not really dead...

Child, Lincoln. (2009). Terminal Freeze. New York: Doubleday Publishing.

Deep Storm

Deep Storm by Lincoln Child is a harrowing tale of discovery and cutting edge science which takes place on the ocean floor, two miles below an oil rig. There is a rumor that while drilling for oil artifacts were discovered. Could this be the lost city of Atlantis?

In a secret joint military-scientific research base a signal has been detected underneath the ocean floor. But scientists and military personnel alike have started to get sick. Is it just the pressure of working in a confined space, knowing there are millions of gallons of water trying to squish them? Or is there something more sinister at work?

Child, Lincoln. (2007). Deep Storm. New York: Doubleday.

Utopia

Utopia by Lincoln Child is the story of a madman in a theme park. Utopia is a park that far surpasses any that is in existence today. It is on the cutting edge of technology with holograms and robots through out the park.

But all of a sudden, the flawless technology starts to go haywire. Robots malfunction and a roller coaster almost kills a kid. Dr. Andrew Warne, a brilliant computer engineer, is a called in to fix the increasing problems.

What he finds out is that a nefarious group of terrorists has hacked into the system and controls the park. The 65,000 visitors who come to the park everyday will not know what hit them.


Child, Lincoln. (2003). Utopia. Greenwich, Connecticut:Fawcett.