New Releases by Douglas Preston

Tom Broadbent - l''un des trois fils de Maxwell, milliardaire excentrique et personnage principal du Codex - mène une vie paisible avec sa femme Sally jusqu''au jour où il découvre un chasseur de trésors blessé par balle. Avant de mourir dans ses bras, ce dernier lui confie un carnet rempli de chiffres mystérieux... Débute alors une aventure qui mènera Tom dans les canyons du Nouveau-Mexique sur les traces d''un fossile de Tyrannosaurus Rex vieux de 65 millions d''années, dont les cellules contiennent pourtant une étrange particule toujours active... Mais Tom n''est pas le seul à vouloir mettre la main sur le T-Rex. Un paléontologue ambitieux et son redoutable bras droit, un ancien agent de la CIA devenu moine et une mystérieuse agence gouvernementale entrent dans la danse. Certains y laisseront la vie... Aventure, action autour d''une énigme scientifique sont les ingrédients du nouveau roman de Douglas Preston où les rebondissements abondent.

In Douglas Preston''s Blasphemy, the world''s biggest supercollider, locked in an Arizona mountain, was built to reveal the secrets of the very moment of creation: the Big Bang itself. The Torus is the most expensive machine ever created by humankind, run by the world''s most powerful supercomputer. It is the brainchild of Nobel Laureate William North Hazelius. Will the Torus divulge the mysteries of the creation of the universe? Or will it, as some predict, suck the earth into a mini black hole? Or is the Torus a Satanic attempt, as a powerful televangelist decries, to challenge God Almighty on the very throne of Heaven? Twelve scientists under the leadership of Hazelius are sent to the remote mountain to turn it on, and what they discover must be hidden from the world at all costs. Wyman Ford, ex-monk and CIA operative, is tapped to wrest their secret, a secret that will either destroy the world...or save it. The countdown begins... At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A biotechnology thriller on a cure for flu. The protagonist is Guy Carson, a DNA engineer in a laboratory in New Mexico working on an anti-virus. So far, the anti-virus has killed people and Carson''s job is to fix that. But it''s a prolonged task and the company is in a hurry to make a profit. And are they really after a cure?

L''excentrique milliardaire Maxwell Broadbent révèle à ses trois fils, par le biais d''une vidéo, s''être enterré vivant au fond d''une tombe. Il leur lance cet ultime défi : le premier qui découvrira sa retraite héritera seul de sa fortune. Malade, Broadbent sait qu''il n''en a plus pour très longtemps, et il a trouvé refuge, avec sa collection d''oeuvres d''art, quelque part en Amérique centrale.

A moon rock missing for thirty years... Five buckets of blood-soaked sand found in a New Mexico canyon... A scientist with ambition enough to kill... A monk who will redeem the world... A dark agency with a deadly mission... The greatest scientific discovery of all time... What fire bolt from the galactic dark shattered the Earth eons ago, and now hides in that remote cleft in the southwest U.S. known as . . . Tyrannosaur Canyon? The stunning new masterwork from the acclaimed best-selling author, recently hailed by Publishers Weekly as "better than Crichton."

Reliquary is the smash hit second book in the Pendergast series, from New York Times bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child Hidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by those who walk the streets above. There lies the ultimate secret of the Museum Beast. When two grotesquely deformed skeletons are found deep in the mud off the Manhattan shoreline, museum curator Margo Green is called in to aid the investigation. Margo must once again team up with police lieutenant D''Agosta and FBI agent Pendergast, as well as the brilliant Dr. Frock, to try and solve the puzzle. The trail soon leads deep underground, where they will face the awakening of a slumbering nightmare... in Reliquary, from bestselling coauthors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Hot on the trail of a killer in Manhattan, FBI Special Agent Pendergast must face his most brilliant and dangerous enemy: his own brother. Two brothers. One a top FBI agent. The other a brilliant, twisted criminal. An undying hatred between them. Now, a perfect crime. And the ultimate challenge: Stop me if you can...

Greetings from the dead, declares Maxwell on the videotape he left behind after his mysterious disappearance.

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 fortress. Now a treasure hunter and his high-tech, million-dollar recovery team embark on the perfect operation to unlock the labyrinth''s mysteries. First the computers fail. The then crewmen begin to die. The island has guarded its secrets for centuries, and it isn''t letting them go--without a fight.

A modern horseback journey across 1,000 miles of desert and wilderness following the trail of the first European explorer in the American Southwest.

1988. Une équipe d''archéologues est sauvagement massacrée en plein coeur du bassin amazonien. De bateau en bateau et de port en port, quelques caisses contenant le fruit de leurs recherches sont acheminées vers le Museum d''Histoire naturelle de New York où elles sont oubliées au fond d''un sous-sol. Quelques années plus tard, le musée prépare une exposition tapageuse sur le thème des superstitions. Peu de temps avant l''inauguration, plusieurs crimes sanglants sont commis... Une terrifiante menace hante les galeries poussiéreuses et les vastes halls, un meurtrier d''une force et d''une férocité inouïes. On parle même d''un monstre... Margo Green, une jeune étudiante travaillant au musée, découvre un lien entre les meurtres, l''expédition et la statuette d''un dieu amazonien exposée pour la toute première fois, celle de Mbwun, "Celui qui marche à quatre pattes". Avec l''aide de John Pendergast, agent du FBI spécialiste des crimes rituels, elle va tout tenter pour sauver le Museum du désastre..