Gideon Crew 01 - Gideon's Sword

✍ Scribed by Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child

• Book ID: 107868424
• Publisher: Hachette Digital, Inc.
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 911 KB
• Series: Gideon Crew 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780446564335

✦ 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 . . .

From Booklist

Gideon Crew, the hero of Preston and Child’s new novel, has a complicated backstory. As a boy, he watched as his father, who had taken a man hostage, was shot down by a sniper. Less than a decade later, he learned from his mother that his father had been used by the U.S. government as a scapegoat for a failed intelligence project. After dispatching the man responsible for his father’s murder, Gideon is offered a job with a private contractor that does hush-hush work for the government. Gideon’s mission: to intercept a Chinese scientist and relieve him of the plans for a top-secret weapon. The mission doesn’t go as drawn, however, and Gideon is left with a mysterious string of numbers. Now, working mostly alone, he must determine what the numbers mean. This novel (which is apparently the first installment in a new series) isn’t as elegantly written or constructed as the authors’ popular Special Agent Pendergast novels, but it does—once you get past the backstory—hold the reader’s interest, and Gideon is undeniably a big-shouldered character, capable of supporting a series. --David Pitt

About the Author

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child are coauthors of the bestselling novels Relic ,Mount Dragon ,Reliquary ,Riptide ,Thunderhead ,The Ice Limit ,The Cabinet of Curiosities ,Still Life with Crows ,Brimstone ,Dance of Death , The Book of the Dead , The Wheel of Darkness, Cemetery Dance , and Fever Dream. Preston's bestselling nonfiction book, The Monster of Florence , is being made into a major motion picture. His interests include horses, scuba diving, skiing, and exploring the Maine coast in an old lobster boat. Lincoln Child is a former book editor who has published four bestselling novels of his own. He is passionate about motorcycles, exotic parrots, and nineteenth-century English literature. The authors welcome email from their readers; visit their website at www.prestonchild.com