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Still Life With Crows: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground. Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy? Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land? Amid golden...

A top nuclear scientist goes mad and takes an innocent family hostage at gunpoint, killing one and causing a massive standoff. A plume of radiation above New York City leads to a warehouse where, it seems, a powerful nuclear bomb was assembled just hours before. Sifting through the evidence...

Don't miss the this exciting, New York Times bestselling adventure from Preston & Child, in which the secrets of a mysterious ancient tablet may point the way to untold treasure--or unspeakable danger. "I just want to be crystal clear about this: if it has value, we're gonna steal it. Are you...

Past and present collide as Special Agent Pendergast uncovers mysterious connections between a string of 19th century bear attacks in a Colorado mining town, a fabled, long-lost Sherlock Holmes story, and a deadly present-day arsonist. In 1876, in a mining camp called Roaring Fork in the...

Guy Carson is a brilliant scientist at GeneDyne, one of the world's foremost biochemical companies. When he is transferred to Mount Dragon, GeneDyne's high-security genetic engineering lab, his good fortune seems too good to be true. Carson soon finds that it is. He learns that GeneDyne geneticists are tinkering with a common virus with an eye on the enormous profit to be had from a cure for the flu. Their cure involves permanently altering DNA in humans. What's more, Mount Dragon harbors another secret that puts the world at horrifying risk.

From #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child, an all-new short story featuring Agent Pendergast, available only as an ebook and audio download. In New Orleans' French Quarter, the Tooth Fairy isn't a benevolent sprite who slips money under your pillow at night....he's a mysterious...

Blue Labyrinth: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! * Special Agent Pendergast-one of the most original, compelling characters in all of contemporary fiction-returns in Preston and Child's new exhilarating novel BLUE LABYRINTH. A...

Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast has come a long way in his time with the Federal Bureau of Investigation - facing down supernatural evils, ancient terrors, and even stepping outside his own timeline to counter a Victorian-era serial killer. Now, venture back to the start of his story, as we learn the truth behind Pendergast's early days with the FBI, and discover the first chilling cases he worked on - all with deadly consequences almost guaranteed.

A captivating action and adventure thriller from bestselling duo, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. In 1695, a notorious English pirate buried his bounty in a maze of booby-trapped tunnels on an island off the coast of Maine. In three hundred years, no one has breached this cursed and rocky...

Brimstone: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! A body is found in the attic of a fabulous Long Island estate. There is a claw print scorched into the wall, and the stench of sulfur chokes the air. When FBI Special Agent Pendergast...

Having travelled back in time to Victorian-era New York City to save her siblings, Constance Greene confronts Manhattan’s most dangerous serial killer, Dr. Leng, but she is betrayed and left incandescent with rage. Agent Pendergast is determined to assist Constance, who is now on a fanatical quest for vengeance. And Diogenes, Pendergast's brother, also takes a trip out of his own time, offering to help the duo for unexplained reasons of his own.

Before he can return to New York from Miami, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is called to investigate something very strange that has happened on the west coast of Florida. Dozens of human feet, identically clad in blue, have washed up on beaches. All exhibit unmistakable signs of violence. Beyond that, nothing is known about the feet, except that they are fresh and haven't been in the water long. Pendergast reluctantly makes his way to the barrier islands off South Florida to investigate a case he believes to be outside his area of expertise and his interest.

Pendergast parviendra-t-il à regagner indemne le XXIe siècle ? Dans le New York des années 1880, Constance Greene n'a pu déjouer les plans du Dr Leng, le premier serial killer de l'histoire de Manhattan. Pas plus que l'inspecteur Aloysius Pendergast n'a su empêcher le savant diabolique de commettre un nouveau forfait. Leng croit avoir gagné la partie, mais il ignore que Diogène, le frère psychopathe de l'inspecteur, a suivi son aîné et qu'il rôde désormais dans les rues du quartier de Five Points.

En 2008, neuf alpinistes ne sont jamais revenus d'une expédition dans le Nouveau-Mexique. Les recherches menées aux abords de leur campement ont montré qu'ils ont été contraints de fuir une menace terrifiante, certains à peine vêtus alors que le blizzard faisait rage. Seuls six corps ont été retrouvés, et l'affaire de la Montagne de la mort n'a jamais été résolue. Quinze ans plus tard, la découverte de deux nouveaux cadavres permet la réouverture du dossier. 

L'inspecteur Pendergast est désemparé. Sa pupille Constance Greene est parvenue à retourner dans le New York des années 1880 pour sauver sa sœur avant qu'elle serve de cobaye au sinistre Dr Leng, l'ancêtre de Pendergast devenu son pire ennemi.

En 1987, en el corazón de la selva amazónica, un equipo de científicos encuentra la talla de un enigmático dios adorado por una tribu de salvajes. El extraño ídolo es enviado a Nueva York, donde queda arrumbado en los sótanos de un enorme y antiguo museo. Poco después, los científicos son masacrados por los indígenas y todo el proyecto cae en el olvido.

FBI Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast always wants to protect his protegee Constance Greene from harm. But, against all odds, Constance has found a way to travel back in time to New York City in the late 1800s to embark on a dangerous quest: to stop the era's most infamous serial killer, Dr. Enoch Leng from bringing his plans to fruition. If she does, she can finally prevent the events that led to the shocking deaths of her sister and brother. Meanwhile, in present-day New York, Agent Pendergast is desperate to reunite with Constance before she gets stuck in the past forever..

Gideon Crew n'a plus que quelques mois à vivre. Pourtant, une fois encore, il est contacté par Glinn, le patron de l'EEC- une officine travaillant en sous-main pour le gouvernementaméricain. Gideon- as de l'informatique et cambrioleur à ses heures-, reçoit l'ordre de voler une page d'un légendaire livre irlandais exposé à New York. Les scientifiques de l'EEC y ont découvert un plan remontant aux Grecs antiques, prouvant que ces derniers se sont établis sur une île du Pacifique pour y cultiver une plante dotée de facultés régénératrices extraordinaires, qui pourrait guérir Gideon de sa tumeur.

Gideon Crew n'a plus qu'un an à vivre et aspire à un peu de tranquillité. Mais le gouvernement américain fait de nouveau appel à lui quand Chalker, l'un de ses anciens collègues du laboratoire nucléaire de Los Alamos, prend une famille en otage. Gideon est dépêché sur place pour tenter de le raisonner, mais les forces spéciales abattent finalement le forcené... Les autorités découvrent alors que Chalker, qui s'était converti à l'islam, était irradié.

Cuando la policía encuentra dos esqueletos unidos en un abrazo en un río de Manhattan, Margo Green, conservadora del Museo de Historia Natural, es invitada a colaborar en la investigación, no solo por sus conocimientos antropológicos sino por su experiencia el año anterior cuando se enfrentó con una horrenda bestia que andaba suelta por los sótanos del museo. Los esqueletos presentan señales de violencia y unas grotescas anormalidades que apuntan a una sola cosa: el despertar de una pesadilla dormida.