Gideon's corpse
A top nuclear scientist turns homicidal, taking an innocent family hostage at gunpoint. Gideon Crew, a colleague of the scientist at Los Alamos, is called in to talk the man down. But the standoff ends in an explosion of violence. When the authorities discover the scientist's body is intensely...
| Main Author: | Preston, Douglas J. |
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| Other Authors: | Child, Lincoln., Collins, David, 1967- |
| Format: | Audiobooks Audiobook (CD) |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Hachette Audio,
p2012.
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| Edition: | Unabridged. |
| Series: |
Gideon Crew novel ;
book 2. |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: |
Go to Downloadable Audiobook Here. |
| Summary: |
A top nuclear scientist turns homicidal, taking an innocent family hostage at gunpoint. Gideon Crew, a colleague of the scientist at Los Alamos, is called in to talk the man down. But the standoff ends in an explosion of violence. When the authorities discover the scientist's body is intensely radioactive, and that he had recently embraced Islamic extremism, all hell breaks loose. |
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| Item Description: |
Compact disc. |
| Physical Description: |
10 sound discs (11.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| ISBN: |
9781611139884 1611139880 |
| Author Notes: |
He became a full-time writer of both fiction and nonfiction books in 1986. Many of his fiction works are co-written with Lincoln Child including Relic, Riptide, Thunderhead, The Wheel of Darkness, Cemetery Dance, and Gideon's Corpse. His nonfiction works include Dinosaurs in the Attic; Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the American Southwest in Pursuit of Coronado; Talking to the Ground; and The Royal Road. He has written for numerous magazines including The New Yorker; Natural History; Harper's; Smithsonian; National Geographic; and Travel and Leisure. He became a New York Times Best Selling author with his titles Two Graves and Crimson Shores which he co-wrote with Lincoln Child, and his titles White Fire, The Lost Island Blue Labyrinth and The Lost City of the Monkey God. (Bowker Author Biography) |