Gideon's Sword

By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Narrated by: John Glover

Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins

Publisher's summary

Introducing Gideon Crew: trickster, prodigy, master thief....

At 12, Gideon Crew witnessed his father, a world-class mathematician, accused of treason and gunned down.

At 24, summoned to his dying mother's bedside, Gideon learned the truth: His father was framed and deliberately slaughtered. With her last breath, she begged her son to avenge him.

Now, with a new purpose in his life, Gideon crafts a one-time mission of vengeance, aimed at the perpetrator of his father's destruction. His plan is meticulous, spectacular, and successful.

But from the shadows, someone is watching. A very powerful someone, who is impressed by Gideon's special skills. Someone who has need of just such a renegade.

For Gideon, this operation may be only the beginning....

©2011 Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child (P)2011 Hachette Audio

Great Beginning

Great beginning of a new series and Character. Excellent narrator! Love the health hook for Crew.

No. This not Pendergast and that’s ok.

I had a fun ride with Gideon Crew and it was great to see Eli Glenn again. This is a high octane ride. I absolutely loved it. It’s an action/espionage thriller novel at it’s core, and I enjoyed every minute.

Speed it up and get it over with

I was intrigued enough to care about the ending, but sped up the narration to make it stop faster.

If your time is limited, spend it on another story.

First Preston and Child book... I'm hooked!

Although the plot is one we have seen before, this book is great. The character development is excellent, the story is fun and exciting. The action is dispersed well between the suspense and development stages of the book. These authors have me hooked on their writing/story telling. This was the first of what is now several books of theirs that I have enjoyed incredibly much. The narrator is good and like I said, this one got me coming back to these guys again and again. Highly recommend looking into these guys stories!

Hmmmm

Not a terrible origin story. Kind of an odd way to start a series of stories by giving the main character a limited time to live. The plot wasn’t overly terrible. Just a bit convoluted.

Good story

I enjoyed the good adventure story, except for the excess of very unnecessary, bad language.

Excellent narrator

The narrator made the book even better. But he had a little help because he had a great landscape to play with.

Great plot honest but alittle action at first

What did you love best about Gideon's Sword?

We all liked it great story with real characters you want to follow

What did you like best about this story?

The main character was a real person who has strong feelings for his family

Which character – as performed by John Glover – was your favorite?

He is good as any of them

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Many, but I liked all of it

Any additional comments?

Please finish book 3 of this series, we are waiting for it.
We are 4 truck drivers who are confined to a small space 8-10 hours a day and
love what these two guys write.
Big fans they never knew who greatly appreciate their works.
Again find time to make our lives much more interesting by writing the great
books we know you are capable of producing An overweight group of hard workers
who are trying to expand our minds not our middles Ha Dennis

Gideon is a whole new thought process

Gideon is tricky, aggravating, smart and really good. I love the Pendergast series, so I was hesitant to start the Gideon series. The main reason... I didn't want a copycat of Pendergast. Believe me, Gideon is in no way a copycat of Pendergast. Gideon is a completely different thought process, a great new idea. I found myself agreeing to and arguing with Gideon's ideas and plans. I usually don't argue out loud with a book or character in a book but Gideon is so male, that you can't help but argue with him. And by male, I don't mean anything bad but dang it, he can be downright aggravating. I couldn't decide if he was just really lucky or really smart. Since he aggravated me, I'm sticking with lucky... But it's not luck, it's just an out of the box thinking that will test your nerves at times. If a book can get that much aggravation out of me, it's a dang good book, because a lot of books are entertaining and interesting, but few are that exciting and aggravating that you get drawn in so well that you actually argue with the characters. Gideon is that good. If you like Pendergast and are looking for something along the same lines, do not look here. I can see now, why a lot of Pendergast fans would not find Gideon as good, because Gideon may be written by the same guys, but the authors went into a completely different thought process for Gideon, which is fantastic!

Very fast read

I always know I will get a great story when Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child are the writers. I was on a long drive to Santa Fe, NM with my husband. and when we arrived, we wanted to stay in the car and listen to the end of the book. It was a great read!!!