Thunderhead

Name: Thunderhead
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.67 (9 reviews)
Author: Douglas Preston
ISBN: 9781607884750

Author: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Narrator: Scott Brick

Unabridged: 17 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 08/03/2010

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Archaeologist Nora Kelly is adrift in her career and her personal life when a violent, inexplicable incident leaves her in possession of a mysterious letter. Written by her father, who vanished sixteen years ago in the remote desert, the letter reveals the location of a legendary site hidden in the red rock canyon country of southern Utah: Quivira, the Anasazi Indians' wondrous lost city of gold.--BOOK JACKET. "Convinced that her father truly had found Quivira, Nora puts together an expedition and takes a team up Lake Powell to the mouth of Serpentine Canyon. In the stark labyrinth of canyons and slickrock desert she will find the answer to both her greatest hopes and her deepest nightmare. For hidden in the shadows of the sunbaked cliffs are untold treasures, the solution to the greatest riddle of American archaeology - and implacable, suffocating death."--BOOK JACKET.

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 on February 17, 2016

Amazing! Preston & Child do it again. This book is soooooo good from page one until the very end. Excitement, suspense, mystery, gore, betrayal, etc. it's all there and there is a lot of it! Also, it is obvious that they put so much research into their books - but the history parts of it are not dry......more

Goodreads review by Scott on August 02, 2018

Wow, what a book. Truly fascinating and captivating. The story was well layered slowly unearthing bits and pieces (pun intended?). I can’t get enough of these authors and looking forward to reading more of their works, highly recommend to pretty much everyone.......more

Goodreads review by Shelly on March 08, 2008

This is the first Preston/Child book I read. After reading this, I have devoured every single one of their books since. It crackles with intelligence and suspense. It is extremely addictive and the setting is by far one of the most interesting and memorable, practically a character in and of itself.......more

Goodreads review by Paul on May 23, 2017

The authors delivered a rousing, suspense thriller in a book that simply, could not be put down. Built upon previous scenes, the momentum of the storyline gained steam as it cunningly, cut it's way through chapter to chapter. It's never too much to expect a fitting ending and that too was delivered......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on March 02, 2024

I was introduced to Nora Kelly in a later segment of the publishing series and found the character engaging due to her similarity to Indiana Jones. Nora holds a PhD in archeology and works for the Santa Fe Archeological Institute, an organization known for their prowess. The story opens when Nora tr......more