Book 0

Extraction

by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Published 1 January 2012

Book 1

Relic

by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Published 1 February 1995
When a team of archaeologists is savagely massacred in the Amazon Basin, all that survives are several boxes of relics and plant specimens. When the relics finally find their way to a museum in New York there are strange repercussions.

Book 2

Reliquary

by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Published 1 May 1997

Two skeletonized corpses are pulled from the sewage-choked waters of Manhattan's Humboldt Kill. Both are headless, their bones scored with teethmarks. It is by no means certain the teethmarks are postmortem.

Believing that the bodies must have been washed out of the city's sewers, Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta of the...

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Book 3

In downtown Manhattan, workers on a construction site breach a long-forgotten basement, unearthing a charnel house: thirty-six bodies, systematically dismembered and carefully immured at least 130 years ago.

It's just the kind of case to intrigue the unorthodox and enigmatic FBI agent Aloysius X.L. Pendergast. But he's...Read more

Book 4

Still Life with Crows

by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Published 1 January 2003
In Medicine Creek, Kansas, an old-fashioned small town where nothing ever changes, the community is terrified after a series of grisly murders takes place. Even more alarming, the bodies are displayed in bizarre tableaus. FBI Agent Pendergast arrives from New Orleans to investigate.

Book 5

Brimstone

by Preston And Child, Douglas Preston, and Lincoln Child

Published 10 January 2004
Art critic Jeremy Grove is found dead, his face frozen in a mask of terror. His body temperature is grotesquely high; he is discovered in a room barricaded from the inside; the smell of brimstone is everywhere...and the unmistakable imprint of a claw is burned into the wall. As...Read more

Book 6

Dance of Death

by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Published 1 January 2005

Two brothers bound by blood, divided by hate . . .

FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast's greatest enemy is one who has stalked him all of his life - his cunning and diabolical brother Diogenes. And Diogenes has thrown down the gauntlet.

Now, several of the people closest to Pendergast are viciously...

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Book 7

The Book of the Dead

by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Published 1 January 2006
The New York Museum of Natural History receives by mail their entire diamond collection ground down to dust. Diogenes, who stole the gems in Dance of Death, is throwing down the gauntlet. In the throes of a PR nightmare, the museum plans a massive and extravagant exhibition to regain...Read more

Book 8

The Wheel of Darkness

by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Published 1 January 2007
Perched like a black crow on a crag in the most hostile depths of the Himalayas stands a monastery. For a thousand years the monks have kept guard. Now their sanctum has been violated, the secret carried off. After a millennium of hiding from the world, the guardians of...Read more

Book 9

Cemetery Dance

by Douglas J Preston and Lincoln Child

Published 31 August 2008
Pendergast - the world's most enigmatic FBI Special Agent - returns to New York City to investigate a murderous cult. William Smithback, a New York Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side....Read more

Book 10

Fever Dream

by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Published 1 January 2010
Destined to be a fan favorite, this exciting new thriller from bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child features Agent Pendergast and tells the dark history of his murdered wife, Helen.

Book 11

Cold Vengeance

by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Published 1 January 2011
"A bonding trip for Pendergast and his brother-in-law, Judson Esterhazy, turns violent. Before abandoning a mortally-wounded Pendergast, Esterhazy announces his sister, Pendergast's long-dead wife Helen, is alive"--Provided by publisher.

Book 12

Two Graves

by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Published 20 November 2012

After his wife, Helen, is brazenly abducted before his eyes, Special Agent Pendergast furiously pursues the kidnappers, chasing them across the country and into Mexico. But then, things go terribly, tragically wrong; the kidnappers escape; and a shattered Pendergast retreats to his New York apartment and shuts out the...

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Book 13

White Fire

by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Published 1 January 2013
Colorado, 1876: At a remote mining camp high in the Rocky Mountains, eleven silver miners are killed, their bodies horribly mutilated, flesh devoured. Bear attack? Not everyone thinks so.

136 years later, the cemetery where the miners were buried is being cleared for new development. Forensic pathologist Corrie...Read more

Book 14

Blue Labyrinth

by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Published 1 January 2014
"A long-buried family secret resurfaces when one of Aloysius Pendergast's most implacable enemies shows up on his doorstep as a murdered corpse. The mystery has all the hallmarks of the perfect murder, save for an enigmatic clue: a piece of turquoise lodged in the stomach of the deceased. The...Read more

Book 15

Crimson Shore

by Douglas J Preston and Lincoln Child

Published 10 November 2015
"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. Pendergast, together with his ward Constance Greene, travels to the quaint seaside village of Exmouth, Massachusetts, to investigate the theft of a priceless wine collection. But inside the...Read more

Book 16

The Obsidian Chamber

by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Published 18 October 2016
"Preston and Child return with the next book in their #1 New York Times bestselling series featuring Special Agent Pendergast"--

"After a harrowing, otherworldly confrontation on the shores of Exmouth, Massachusetts, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is missing, presumed dead. Sick with grief, his ward, Constance, retreats to her...Read more

Book 17

City of Endless Night

by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Published 16 January 2018
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. Until the young woman's body is discovered in an abandoned warehouse in Queens, the head nowhere to be found. Lieutenant CDS...Read more

Book 18

Verses for the Dead

by Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston

Published 31 December 2018
After an overhaul of leadership at the FBI's New York field office, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is forced to accept an unthinkable condition of continued employment: the unorthodox lone wolf must now work with a partner.

Pendergast and his new cohort, Special Agent Coldmoon, are dispatched to...Read more

Book 19

Crooked River

by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Published 4 February 2020

FACELESS VICTIMS.

Dozens of identical shoes have washed up on the beach in the quiet resort town of Sanibel Island, Florida. They appear completely ordinary but for one thing - each contains a crudely severed human foot.

A SEA OF UNANSWERED QUESTIONS.

Faced with an incomprehensible puzzle and ever...

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