Writing two-handed novels sounds like hard science fiction to me. Who takes care of what? Who decides what will happen? How come they don't end up with cakes? All this to introduce the writer Douglas preston, on so many occasions accompanied by lincoln kid to present their works to us alimón. And it is that here a server was unable to write something by halves, not even the letter to the Magi with my sisters. Hence my absolute admiration.
Surely this procedure is positive in the end, as one will serve as a filter and support for the other, but to achieve that positive synergy in something as personal as creative ..., I honestly do not know how they will achieve it.
In the usual tandem, I want to believe that the most notorious creativity may be that of Douglas Preston, as he is a multidisciplinary author, capable of presenting historical or scientific research books as well as thriller or horror novels.
In its fictional aspect, each new novel, whether strictly his own or in collaboration with the other part of his literary marriage, is received with the same attention from his fervent readers and new ones who are joining the Preston fever. . In this field of fiction, it already exceeds 30 published novels.
Top Douglas Preston novels
The reliquary
A novel shared with Lincoln Child (And if I value it above the others, it is that society works). A combination of thriller and mystery that makes us rethink the underworld we step on when we go out. Two dead emerge from the waters of the irrigated island of Manhattan.
The macabre appearance of his violent death awakens recent fears about the possible existence of a beast that inhabits the catacombs of the city's sewage system. These are not times for ancestral beliefs, but the facts seem to face reality with their brutal clues. To such an extent it is suspected of something esoteric and ancestral, that Margo Green will act as a specialist in Natural History at the service of the police investigators.
They will not be alone, because even the FBI is interested in the case. Manhattan is another view from underground. The darkness anticipates dangers at every moment. Elucidating what New York City is dealing with will have you trapped.
The cemetery dance
The esoteric is more than a constant in Preston and Child's novels. This time we approach the world of black magic.
Evil can use the esoteric, the atavistic fears of the human being to execute its misdeeds. Or maybe not ... maybe someone long left for dead has risen from his grave to seek his own justice.
The ceremony of fear and death, societies or groups capable of displaying that power above the human have always magnetized literature and cinema. In this narrative proposal we know what may be true in voodoo and its halo of power over life and death ...
The monster of Florence
It was also a coincidence that a brilliant writer of the mysterious, the esoteric and the thriller ended up learning about one of the most ominous cases in recent history. It happened in the Italian city that gives its name to this novel-chronicle.
Preston was out there and Mario Spezi, a journalist, brought him up to date on the chained cases of several couples murdered while indulging in furtive passion.
This story is an investigation parallel to the official one, its conclusions also went beyond what was officially said. Since then Preston has been persona non grata in Italy. What is more or less true will always remain in the limbo of badly closed cases.
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Without a drop of blood, Preston and Child
Pendergast sounds more like a consolidated brand than the emblematic surname of the investigator on duty. It is a matter of prestige and solvency, of carving out a unique space in the crime genre for this Lincoln – Child tandem that has been delighting readers all over the world for so many years.
On November 24, 1971, DB Cooper hijacked Flight 305 from Portland to Seattle with a false bomb threat. After collecting a ransom of $200.000 he parachuted from the back of the plane and disappeared into the darkness of the night without a trace.
Fifty years later, Agent Pendergast takes charge of a strange and terrifying case: in the city of Savannah, the lifeless bodies of several people have appeared without a single drop of blood in their veins. A series of crimes that has recalled the stories about the infamous vampire of Savannah, a "cursed" city surrounded by mystery, known for its haunted houses and spooky stories.
While other lifeless and bloodied bodies appear in the city, a film crew is filming an episode for a new Netflix documentary series and a senator worried about his re-election pressures the FBI to resolve the situation as soon as possible.
Pendergast, along with Agent Coldmoon, investigate whether the crimes are related to the only unsolved hijacking in the history of North American aviation. Together they will not only discover the answer but a supernatural evil beyond everything imaginable.
