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Douglas Preston

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Douglas Jerome Preston was born on May 20, 1956 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He received a B.A. in English literature from Pomona College in 1978. His career began at the American Museum of Natural History, where he worked as an editor and writer from 1978 to 1985. He also was a lecturer in English visa mer at Princeton University. He became a full-time writer of both fiction and nonfiction books in 1986. Many of his fiction works are co-written with Lincoln Child including Relic, Riptide, Thunderhead, The Wheel of Darkness, Cemetery Dance, and Gideon's Corpse. His nonfiction works include Dinosaurs in the Attic; Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the American Southwest in Pursuit of Coronado; Talking to the Ground; and The Royal Road. He has written for numerous magazines including The New Yorker; Natural History; Harper's; Smithsonian; National Geographic; and Travel and Leisure. He became a New York Times Best Selling author with his titles Two Graves and Crimson Shores which he co-wrote with Lincoln Child, and his titles White Fire, The Lost Island Blue Labyrinth and The Lost City of the Monkey God. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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(eng) This author is Douglas Preston. DO NOT COMBINE THIS PAGE WITH ANY JOINT PAGES OF DOUGLAS PRESTON AND LINCOLN CHILD Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child are two different people, who have written books collaboratively and separately. Their author pages should not be combined with each other, or with any of the variants using both their names. Please see "Who Should/Shouldn't Get combined" on the Author wiki page. Thank you.

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Verk av Douglas Preston

Relic (1995) 5,238 exemplar
The Cabinet of Curiosities (2002) 4,031 exemplar
Reliquary (1997) 3,598 exemplar
The Book of the Dead (2006) 3,525 exemplar
Brimstone (2004) 3,392 exemplar
The Wheel Of Darkness (2007) 3,105 exemplar
Dance of Death (2005) 3,060 exemplar
Still Life with Crows (2003) 3,040 exemplar
Monstret i Florens (2008) 2,610 exemplar
Cemetery Dance (2009) 2,368 exemplar
Thunderhead (1999) 2,253 exemplar
Fever Dream (2010) 2,226 exemplar
Riptide (1998) 2,149 exemplar
Tyrannosaur Canyon (2005) 2,080 exemplar
The Codex (2003) 2,076 exemplar
The Ice Limit (2000) 1,961 exemplar
Mount Dragon (1996) 1,731 exemplar
Blasphemy (2008) 1,638 exemplar
Cold Vengeance (2011) 1,573 exemplar
Two Graves (2012) 1,515 exemplar
White Fire (2013) 1,406 exemplar
Gideon's Sword (2011) 1,405 exemplar
Impact (2010) 1,329 exemplar
Blue Labyrinth (2014) 1,236 exemplar
Crimson Shore (2015) 1,087 exemplar
Gideon's Corpse (2012) 910 exemplar
The Obsidian Chamber (2016) 905 exemplar
City of Endless Night (2018) 872 exemplar
The Lost Island (2014) 818 exemplar
Old Bones (2019) — Författare — 783 exemplar
Verses for the Dead (2018) 743 exemplar
Beyond the Ice Limit (2016) 600 exemplar
Crooked River (2020) 584 exemplar
Bloodless (2021) 522 exemplar
The Scorpion's Tail (2021) 517 exemplar
The Kraken Project (2014) 515 exemplar
The Pharoah Key (2018) 499 exemplar
Diablo Mesa (2022) 352 exemplar
The Cabinet of Dr. Leng (2023) 334 exemplar
Extraction (2012) 277 exemplar
Jennie (1994) 215 exemplar
Dead Mountain (2023) 191 exemplar
Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel (2022) — Redaktör; Bidragsgivare — 130 exemplar
The Lost Tomb (2023) 85 exemplar
Extinction: A Novel (2023) 18 exemplar
The Forgotten Killer (2014) 15 exemplar
Headhunt - Feldzug der Rache (2018) 7 exemplar
Riptide [abridged audiobook] (1998) — Författare — 4 exemplar
Le Cabinet du Dr Leng (2023) 2 exemplar
L'antre du diable (2022) 2 exemplar
O ‰vÂirus do apocalipse (2013) 2 exemplar
A sötétség kereke (2008) 1 exemplar
La costa cremisi (2016) 1 exemplar
Il fiume del male (2023) 1 exemplar
Strangers 1 exemplar
Desperation 1 exemplar
Kirjavaliot (2007) 1 exemplar
Monsieur Bertin 1 exemplar
Nel fuoco 1 exemplar
L'uomo che scrive ai morti (2020) 1 exemplar

Associerade verk

Thriller : noveller som håller dig vaken (2006) — Bidragsgivare — 756 exemplar
FaceOff (2014) — Bidragsgivare — 501 exemplar
The Big Book of Adventure Stories (2011) — Förord — 113 exemplar
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020 (2021) — Bidragsgivare — 100 exemplar
In Search of Ice Age Americans (2002) — Förord — 27 exemplar
National Geographic Magazine 2015 v228 #4 October (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 20 exemplar
Reader's Digest Select Editions 1998 v06 #240 (1998) — Författare — 9 exemplar
Válogatott könyvek (2000) 4 exemplar

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Namn enligt folkbokföringen
Preston, Douglas J.
Födelsedag
1956-05-26
Kön
male
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Bostadsorter
Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Round Pond, Maine, USA
Utbildning
Pomona College
Cambridge School of Weston
Yrken
editor
writer
manager of publications
professor
research associate
School of American Research (Boardmember)
Relationer
Preston, Richard (brother)
Dickinson, Emily (Ancestor)
Organisationer
American Museum of Natural History
The Atlantic Monthly
Smithsonian
The New Yorker
Laboratory of Anthropology (Santa Fe)
PEN New Mexico
Agent
Eric Simonoff (Janklow & Nesbit Associates)
Matthew Snyder
Kort biografi
Douglas Preston is the author of thirty-five books, both fiction and nonfiction, twenty-two of which have been New York Times bestsellers, with several reaching the number 1 position. He has worked as an editor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. His first novel, RELIC, co-authored with Lincoln Child, was made into a movie by Paramount Pictures, which launched the famed Pendergast series of novels. His recent nonfiction book, THE MONSTER OF FLORENCE, is also in production as a film. His latest book, THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD, tells the true story of the discovery of a prehistoric city in an unexplored valley deep in the Honduran jungle. In addition to books, Preston writes about archaeology and paleontology for the New Yorker, National Geographic, and Smithsonian. He is past co-president of International Thriller Writers and serves on the board of the Authors Guild. He is the recipient of numerous writing awards in the US and Europe, including an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Pomona College.
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This author is Douglas Preston. DO NOT COMBINE THIS PAGE WITH ANY JOINT PAGES OF DOUGLAS PRESTON AND LINCOLN CHILD Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child are two different people, who have written books collaboratively and separately. Their author pages should not be combined with each other, or with any of the variants using both their names. Please see "Who Should/Shouldn't Get combined" on the Author wiki page. Thank you.

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Recensioner

Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child’s The Cabinet of Dr. Leng is the twenty-first novel in the Pendergast series focused on FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast. The story begins following the events of Bloodless, which introduced a time machine in the vein of Michael Crichton’s Timeline that can use quantum tunneling to peer into parallel realities that feature a different time rather than traveling back along the time of one’s own reality. Constance Greene used the device to travel to a New York City of the 1880s in order to save some version of her siblings from their grisly fates and to extract vengeance from Dr. Enoch Leng, Pendergast’s ancestor and the man who experimented on and killed her sister to develop his Arcanum, eventually using it to prolong his own and Constance’s life. For his part, Pendergast decides not to follows Constance’s directions and reconstructs the machine she destroyed in order to save her from Leng, a threat in any timeline. In this, the novel returns the series to one of its strongest previous entries while offering the chance for Preston & Child to flex their historical fiction skills.

Meanwhile in the present, Lt. Vincent D’Agosta finds himself returning to the Museum of Natural History, the site of two of Pendergast’s earliest cases, in order to investigate a classic locked-room mystery. Out in Denver, Special Agent Armstrong Coldmoon investigates a murder on a nearby Reservation. His superiors and the local police think the case is open-and-shut, but his doubts reveal the duplication and theft of Native American artwork and items of cultural patrimony with links to D’Agosta’s case. Soon, Pendergast’s two former partners find themselves working together to uncover how many items were stolen and where they ended up.

The story concludes on a cliffhanger, with a teaser promising a final confrontation between Pendergasts past and present. In expanding upon a narrative that began in The Cabinet of Curiosities, Preston & Child find themselves on safe ground so that long-time fans can follow the narrative leaps time travel brings to the story. The B-story focused on D’Agosta and Coldmoon gives each a chance to shine while affording them the opportunity to learn from each other’s insights. A good addition to the Pendergast series that promises an exciting conclusion in the forthcoming twenty-second novel.
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DarthDeverell | 17 andra recensioner | Mar 18, 2024 |
You’ve got to be kidding me? Aliens? This went to Hell way faster than the Pendergast books did
 
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corliss12000 | 14 andra recensioner | Mar 16, 2024 |
I was hesitant to read this since these authors have ruined my favorite character, Agent Pendergast for me, but my second favorite is Corrie, so I read it. It was actually pretty good in my opinion, although I thought the prion bit was a bit of a stretch
 
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corliss12000 | 50 andra recensioner | Mar 16, 2024 |
A corpse in a ghost town lead Nora Kelly and Corrie Swanson to a deadly battle with the military.
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DrApple | 20 andra recensioner | Mar 15, 2024 |

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Statistik

Verk
103
Även av
28
Medlemmar
72,249
Popularitet
#175
Betyg
3.8
Recensioner
2,358
ISBN
1,685
Språk
23
Favoritmärkt
175

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