Gideon's Sword

Name: Gideon's Sword
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.44 (18 reviews)
Author: Douglas Preston
ISBN: 9781600249969

Author: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Series: Gideon Crew Series

Narrator: John Glover

Unabridged: 9 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 02/22/2011

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Espionage, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

Introducing Gideon Crew: trickster, prodigy, master thief

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

At twenty-four, 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 . . .

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 Matthew

Decided to break off from the Pendergast series and give Gideon Crew a try. It felt a lot different. It was pretty good, but did not blow me away like the Pendergast series. Here are my pros and cons. Pros: - Love how each scene with Crew is a different character - a master of disguise - Enjoyable and......more

Goodreads review by James

A very good friend recommended the series to me. We'd buddy read most of the co-authors' other series, Pendergast, and so it seemed like a natural next step. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child created another memorable character with Gideon Crew who has been both a good and a bad guy, and now, it see......more

Goodreads review by Mary

This book was a real hit with me so you can imagine my shock when I went to the book's page on Amazon and found that the book was really slammed by reviewers. I read a wide variety of different types of fiction and found this book was not lacking in the least. At the beginning of this story we learn......more