‘Reliquary’ (1997) goes underground for ‘Relic’ sequel
Preston & Child flashback (Book review): The authors have explored every corner of the globe, but the area beneath NYC might be the most fascinating.
P&C’s ‘Mount Dragon’ (1996) previews pandemic panic
Preston & Child flashback (Book review): The virus threat is harrowingly current, but the focus on an early intuitive website is outdated.
‘Relic’ (1997) an intense but simple adaptation
Preston & Child flashback (Movie review): It’s not as good as P&C’s breakthrough novel, but Peter Hyams’ film has charms as a B-monster movie.
Preston & Child break through with ‘Relic’ (1995)
Preston & Child flashback (Book review): The authors invent modern museum horror with the nooks, crannies and scares in their debut team-up.
Preston & Child’s ‘Old Bones’ is gripping, creepy
Book review: Nora, Corrie and cannibalism star in Preston & Child’s gripping and creepy novel.
Preston & Child’s ‘Verses for the Dead’ explores southern Florida and a puzzling string of deaths (Book review)
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child give Agent Pendergast a fresh start of sorts in his 18th novel, “Verses for the Dead” (December, hardcover). Series like the Constance trilogy and the Helen trilogy are conclusions to long-simmering threads, and the standalone before this one, “City of Endless Night,” is a nostalgic team-up for Pendergast and D’Agosta.
Preston & Child take readers to Egypt and through the sands of time in the gripping ‘Pharaoh Key’ (Book review)
It has become comfortingly familiar at this point: Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child take us – via their adventurous leads – to some corner of the Earth that still holds mysteries in the 21st century. Or that we can imagine still holds mysteries, if our knowledge of the place is sketchy enough that we can
Preston & Child get their groove back with ‘City of Endless Night’ (Book review)
After the often credulity-stretching “Obsidian Chamber” (2016), Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child get back on track with “City of Endless Night” (January, hardcover), their 17th Pendergast novel. As the evocative title suggests, the action takes place entirely in their favorite home stomping grounds, New York City, in the winter months when it gets dark early.
‘The Relic’ reviews
John’s “The Relic” flashback review, Sept. 27, 2020 “The Relic” – The book by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child is the scariest novel ever written, so there was really no way director Peter Hyams could fail. “The Relic” stands apart from its genre brethren with the mystery that runs parallel to the scares and the
Lincoln Child treks through foreboding Adirondacks in brisk ‘Full Wolf Moon’ (Book review)
Lincoln Child has already shown his skills in the “sense of place” adventure genre with the likes of “Deep Storm” (the ocean floor), “Terminal Freeze” (the Alaskan tundra) and “The Third Gate” (the swamps of northeast Africa), and he does it again with “Full Wolf Moon” (May, hardcover), set in New York’s Adirondack Mountains and the surrounding