Gideon's Sword

Ahhh, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child have been and incredible writing team for years.  I always wondered who was the more creative and who was the more technical of the two.  I suppose after more than 15 novels written together and several solo projects, I guess it really doesn't matter as they have more than proven that they know what it takes to take a book to the bestseller list.

Their newest novel, Gideon's Sword due out on February 22nd from Grand Central Publishing features new character Gideon Crew in search of the truth behind the gunning down of his father he witnessed when he was twelve.  Gideon, hired by Effective Engineering Solutions (EES), goes in search of a Chinese national who has the plans for a possible weapon. Currently, Gideon works for Sandia Laboratories, but EES is more interested in his college day skills as an art thief to help them retrieve the plans.   During the retrieval of these plans, Gideon also learns the truth about his father.

Preston and Childs continue to make complex characters that are willing to take the reader to the edge and then fall off the edge if needed.  While I still prefer the Pendergast novels, the side series detailing EES, allow the authors to bring in new plotlines and characters that might or might not make it into the Pendergast novels.  Sometimes we find out how a future Pendergast plot may take a turn by the introduction of these side characters, but more often than not, we just enjoy the side novels on their own.



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