Douglas Preston
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Douglas Preston

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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Best Sellers

    • The Lost City of the Monkey God

    • A True Story
    • By: Douglas Preston
    • Narrated by: Bill Mumy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4 out of 5 stars 2,982
    • Performance
      4 out of 5 stars 2,707
    • Story
      4 out of 5 stars 2,705

    Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City....

    • 5 out of 5 stars

    • Danger and Discovery in the Jungle

    • By Jim N on 01-08-17

    Regular price: $29.65

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    • City of Endless Night

    • By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
    • Narrated by: Rene Auberjonois
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 2,257
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 2,071
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 2,066

    When Grace Ozmian, the beautiful and reckless daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire, first goes missing, the NYPD assumes she has simply sped off on another wild adventure....

    • 5 out of 5 stars

    • The allusive Pendergast..,

    • By shelley on 01-18-18

    Regular price: $30.79

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    • Relic

    • Pendergast, Book 1
    • By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4 out of 5 stars 7,982
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 6,098
    • Story
      4 out of 5 stars 6,138

    Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms....

    • 5 out of 5 stars

    • Non-Perishable

    • By Snoodely on 05-26-10

    Regular price: $19.99

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    • Reliquary

    • Pendergast, Book 2
    • By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
    • Narrated by: Dick Hill
    • Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4 out of 5 stars 4,845
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 3,740
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 3,733

    Hidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by those who walk the streets above. There lies the ultimate secret of the Museum Beast....

    • 5 out of 5 stars

    • Should have made this one into a movie...

    • By Anastasia on 02-22-09

    Regular price: $27.27

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    • The Obsidian Chamber

    • By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
    • Narrated by: Rene Auberjonois
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 3,351
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 3,083
    • Story
      4 out of 5 stars 3,078

    After a harrowing otherworldly confrontation on the shores of Exmouth, Massachussetts, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is missing, presumed dead....

    • 2 out of 5 stars

    • Looking for a plot

    • By Olive on 11-23-16

    Regular price: $30.79

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    • Blue Labyrinth

    • By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
    • Narrated by: Rene Auberjonois
    • Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 4,154
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 3,775
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 3,759

    A long-buried family secret resurfaces when one of Aloysius Pendergast's most implacable enemies shows up on his doorstep as a murdered corpse....

    • 5 out of 5 stars

    • Twists and Tuns in the Pendergast Family Tree

    • By GH on 11-13-14

    Regular price: $30.79

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    • Crimson Shore

    • By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
    • Narrated by: Rene Auberjonois
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 3,925
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 3,607
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 3,597

    A seemingly straightforward private case turns out to be much more complicated - and sinister - than Special Agent A. X. L. Pendergast ever could have anticipated....

    • 2 out of 5 stars

    • They Jumped the Shark!

    • By Nan Holt on 11-15-15

    Regular price: $30.79

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    • Cemetery Dance

    • By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
    • Narrated by: Rene Auberjonois
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 2,597
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 1,769
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 1,765

    William Smithback, a New York Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on the Upper West side of Manhattan....

    • 3 out of 5 stars

    • Not for the faint of heart OR animal lovers

    • By Samantha on 05-31-09

    Regular price: $22.80

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    • The Book of the Dead

    • By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 3,408
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 2,283
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 2,271

    Diogenes, the psychotic killer who stole them in Dance of Death, is throwing down the gauntlet to both the city and to his brother, FBI Agent Pendergast....

    • 4 out of 5 stars

    • Not bad

    • By V.A. on 01-03-08

    Regular price: $19.38

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    • Fever Dream

    • By: Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston
    • Narrated by: Rene Auberjonois
    • Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4 out of 5 stars 4,237
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 2,760
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 2,767

    Pendergast learns that his wife's rifle - her only protection from lion - had been deliberately loaded with blanks....

    • 5 out of 5 stars

    • Intelligent, spooky thriller

    • By Snoodely on 06-10-10

    Regular price: $22.80

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