About the Author

DOUGLAS PRESTON has worked for the American Museum of Natural History as well as being a contributor to "The New Yorker." He is the "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Codex" and "Tyrannosaur Canyon.""Relic" is the first book in his many "New York Times" bestselling collaborations with Lincoln Child, including "Dance of Death, ""Brimstone, The Cabinet of Curiosities, " and "Still Life with Crows." He lives with his family in Maine.
LINCOLN CHILD is the author of "Utopia" and "Death Match, " as well as a number of "New York Times" bestselling thrillers with Douglas Preston. He lives with his wife and daughter in Morristown, New Jersey.

Reviews

"Far above Crichton's "Jurassic Park.""--"Booklist "on" Relic"
"What might happen if a creature from Jurassic Park came to New York City." -"The Chicago Tribune" on" Relic
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"Wildly cool...Thrill hounds couldn't ask for a creepier environment...a thriller staged in the world's scariest building, with no room for the squeamish." -"Kirkus Reviews "on" Relic"
""Jaws" takes Manhattan."--"San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle "on" Relic
""A thriller that arrives with the kinetic energy of a meteor smacking the earth. "--"Tampa Tribune and Times "on" Relic"
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"""A high-concept, high-energy thriller . . . Builds to a superbly exciting climax, and then offers a final twist to boot."--"Publishers Weekly "on "Relic
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"Far above Crichton's "Jurassic Park"."--"Booklist "on" Relic"

"What might happen if a creature from Jurassic Park came to New York City." -"The Chicago Tribune" on" Relic
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"Wildly cool...Thrill hounds couldn't ask for a creepier environment...a thriller staged in the world's scariest building, with no room for the squeamish." -"Kirkus Reviews "on" Relic"

""Jaws" takes Manhattan."--"San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle "on" Relic
""A thriller that arrives with the kinetic energy of a meteor smacking the earth. "--"Tampa Tribune and Times "on" Relic"
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"""A high-concept, high-energy thriller . . . Builds to a superbly exciting climax, and then offers a final twist to boot."--"Publishers Weekly "on "Relic
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"Far above Crichton's "Jurassic Park,""--"Booklist "on" Relic" "What might happen if a creature from Jurassic Park came to New York City." -"The Chicago Tribune" on" Relic
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"Wildly cool...Thrill hounds couldn't ask for a creepier environment...a thriller staged in the world's scariest building, with no room for the squeamish." -"Kirkus Reviews "on" Relic" ""Jaws" takes Manhattan."--"San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle "on" Relic
""A thriller that arrives with the kinetic energy of a meteor smacking the earth. "--"Tampa Tribune and Times "on" Relic""" """A high-concept, high-energy thriller . . . Builds to a superbly exciting climax, and then offers a final twist to boot."--"Publishers Weekly "on "Relic
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"Far above Crichton's "Jurassic Park."--"Booklist on" Relic "What might happen if a creature from Jurassic Park came to New York City." -"The Chicago Tribune on" Relic
"Wildly cool...Thrill hounds couldn't ask for a creepier environment...a thriller staged in the world's scariest building, with no room for the squeamish." -"Kirkus Reviews on" Relic ""Jaws takes Manhattan."--"San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle on" Relic
"A thriller that arrives with the kinetic energy of a meteor smacking the earth. "--"Tampa Tribune and Times on" Relic" ""A high-concept, high-energy thriller . . . Builds to a superbly exciting climax, and then offers a final twist to boot."--"Publishers Weekly on "Relic

YA‘This electrifying thriller opens in an unexplored, mysterious corner of the Amazon basin. A Museum of Natural History expedition is seeking the legendary Kothoga tribe in quest of the vile secret it conceals. The thoroughly terrified tribes nearby infer that the Kothoga and their malicious ways are too awful to discuss with outsiders, except to issue dire warnings. The expedition dissolves, with most of its members opting out of the territory with alacrity, only to perish in a plane crash. Two zealous individuals who heedlessly press on into the jungle vanish, but not before making the horrifying discovery they sought. The crates of the lost expedition, however, arrive back in New York City intact, and are consigned to the basement for cataloging. The story picks up back at the museum where murders have begun to occur with dreadful frequency. Forensics reveal the death blows were delivered with unusual strength, the corpses were dismembered with savage violence, and the perpetrator has mighty unusual DNA patterns. The NYPD, the FBI, and enterprising museum research assistants join efforts to solve the grisly murders but are stonewalled by officials in the head office who plan a revenue-generating exhibition of Amazonian artifacts, recklessly ignoring the impending danger to staff and visitors alike. While the story line contains a bit too much of museum politics and logistics that don't quite mesh, the suspense is sure to please fans of Michael Crichton and Stephen King.‘Catherine Noonan, Fairfax County Public Library, VA

One suspects that Child, who has edited numerous ghost and horror anthologies (e.g., Dark Company, St. Martin's, 1984), read Dinosaurs in the Attic (LJ 10/15/86), Preston's wonderful history of the American Museum of Natural History, and decided the pair should collaborate on a horror novel in this wonderfully spooky setting. The heroes (an FBI agent and a journalist) and heroine (a spunky graduate student) wander through basements, sub-basements, and tunnels, searching for the savagely murderous predator inadvertently sent to the museum from the Amazon. Despite the headless bodies turning up all over, the museum director is determined to proceed with the lucrative opening ceremony for the new "Superstition" exhibit. Then the monster gets loose among New York's rich and powerful. This is a real page-turner, part Jaws, part Poseidon Adventure. Essential for horror collections.-Marylaine Block, St. Ambrose Univ. Lib., Davenport, Ia.