The Book of the Dead, Douglas Preston
The Book of the Dead, Douglas Preston
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The Book of the Dead

Author: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Narrator: Scott Brick

Unabridged: 15 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/30/2006

Synopsis

An FBI agent, rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not commit...
His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime...
A young woman with an extrodinary past, on th edge of a violent breakdown...
An ancient Egyptian tomb with an enigmatic curse, about to be unveiled at a celebrity-studded New York gala...
Memento Mori

About Douglas Preston

Douglas Preston is the author of more than thirty books, both fiction and nonfiction, more than twenty of which have been New York Times bestsellers. 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, coauthored with Lincoln Child, was made into a movie, and launched the famed Pendergast series of novels. His recent nonfiction book, The Monster of Florence, is also being made into a film. In addition to books, Preston writes about archaeology and paleontology for the New Yorker, National Geographic, and Smithsonian.

Reviews

Goodreads review by La Petite Américaine on July 07, 2008

I normally never buy NY Times bestsellers, as it's usually the morons of America that cause the shittiest books ever written to end up on this list. The Book of the Dead was an exception I made. This time American readers got it RIGHT! I just finished this book and I'm still reeling. This book is th......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on April 11, 2017

I am marking this 5 stars, but it is more like 4.5 stars. I hate to take any stars from Preston and Child, but, while the book was great, I did not care for the climax very much. The story was an action packed resolution to the Diogenes trilogy in the same vein as the other Pendergast novels that I......more

Goodreads review by Paul on April 25, 2024

A slam bang finale to a thrilling trilogy! THE BOOK OF THE DEAD is everything a thriller fan could hope for - a page-turning, unputdownable, thrilling, decadently readable, thoroughly entertaining, slam bang finale to a colourful, imaginative trilogy! The basic plot premise is simplicity itself! FBI S......more

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