Douglas Preston is a famous science fiction writer,who specializes in the genres of techtriller and mystical horror. Most of all he is known for works written in collaboration with Lincoln Child. In addition, Douglas Preston is also a successful journalist.
Douglas Preston was born on May 20, 1956 in the cityCambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Douglas moved to Claremont, where he entered the local college in the specialty “English literature”, which he graduated with honors.
After completing the training, Douglas Preston workedat the American Museum of Natural History, located in New York. There, most of the time he held the position of editor, and then was promoted to manager of publications. In parallel, he taught English literature at Princeton University.
However, the beginning of a literary career is connected with the museum. It was there that he was inspired to write his first book, after which other works followed.
At the peak of success, Preston Douglas was released in the ninetiesthe years when he teamed up with the aforementioned Lincoln Child to write exciting pieces - action-packed fiction novels. To date, the writer continues to publish new books, and also writes to a number of leading magazines in the world.
Preston Douglas has written many books in his life,however, his most popular series was Alois Pendergast, co-written with Lincoln Child. The most outstanding and well-known was the first book of the series, called "Relic".
The plot is tied with the arrival in AmericanThe Museum of Natural History (in which Preston worked) a new exhibit from South America. And immediately after this, a series of mysterious deaths begins in the museum. Moreover, these are murders that are so bloody and ruthless that it immediately becomes clear that a murderer cannot be a human being. And investigator Pendergast has to find out who is behind all this.
It was this novel that became most famous for suchauthor like Douglas Preston. The books that followed him also received great recognition, especially the second and third parts of the series, Reliquary and The Office of Wonderland, in which the theme started in the first part continues to evolve.
Another series that Preston wrote inco-authored with Child is Gideon Crewe. This is not so large-scale series. It still includes four works, the last of which was written in 2016. But how did it all begin?
The first book of the series was the work “The SwordGideon ", which tells how the talented hacker Gideon, who stole the greatest works of art, cracked the most impenetrable computer defenses and sophisticated revenge on the parents' murderers, becomes an agent of special services of the USA who entrust him with the task of delivering important information to a Japanese physicist who is dying right before the meeting.
And the plot of the book revolves around how Crewe conducts its investigation of this case.
What other works did Douglas Preston write? Most of the author’s books are written in collaboration with Child, so you should take a look at the works that Douglas created on his own.
This series, launched in 2005, isthe work of Preston himself, without the support of Child. The first book, which was called the Tyrannosaurus Canyon, tells how the famous antiquities hunter dies, leaving a secret cipher to an accidental witness. He begins to attempt to solve the cipher, but so far does not even suspect that he becomes the goal just because he became the owner of these cherished numbers.
What hides this cipher?The main character hopes to find the answer to this question from a monk living at a distance from civilization. It turns out that this monk is an experienced CIA coder who has resigned. Can he help the main character?
Naturally, these are just a few examples.The most famous books of this author. In all, several dozens of books were published under his pen, but the Pendergast pro series is still the most popular. It has already twenty parts, and the twenty-first is on its way. It is reported that it may be on sale at the end of 2016 or the beginning of 2017.
