Description Don\'t miss the this exciting, New York Times bestselling adventure from Preston & Child, in which the secrets of a mysterious ancient tablet may point the way to untold treasure--or unspeakable danger.
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Lincoln Child is a former book editor who has published five novels of his own, including the huge bestseller Deep Storm .
In addition to his novels, Preston writes about archaeology for the New Yorker and Smithsonian magazines.
They are coauthors of the famed Pendergast series and their recent novels include Fever Dream , Cold Vengeance , Two Graves , and Gideon\'s Corpse .
Preston and Child\'s Relic and The Cabinet of Curiosities were chosen by readers in a National Public Radio poll as being among the one hundred greatest thrillers ever written, and Relic was made into a number-one box office hit movie. p.p1 margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica span.s1 font-kerning: none About the author The thrillers of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child "stand head and shoulders above their rivals" ( Publishers Weekly ).
But as Gideon has proved again and again, there\'s no such thing as too great a risk when you\'re living on borrowed time.
As Gideon and Garza soon discover, some missions are more dangerous than others.
What lies at the end of the trail may save Gideon\'s life-or bring it to a sudden, shocking close.
The two agree to solve the mystery of the disc\'s message and split the spoils: the perfect parting gift their employer doesn\'t know he has given.
No one remains at EES to take on this most remarkable mission but Gideon and Garza.
The mysteries of the message itself hint at incredible treasures, and perhaps even a world-altering secret.
After centuries of silence, a code-breaking machine at EES has cracked the long-awaited translation of a centuries-old stone tablet, the Phaistos Disc, that dates back to an otherwise completely unknown, ancient civilization.
After years of dedicated service and several high-risk missions, theirs seems like the most ignoble of terminations-until Gideon and Garza happen upon an incredible discovery.
Fresh off a diagnosis that gives him only months to live, Gideon Crew is contacted by one of his coworkers at EES, Manuel Garza, who tells him the two have mere hours to collect their belongings before the office closes forever.
Are you with me?" Effective Engineering Solutions has been inexplicably shut down and the head of the company, Eli Glinn, has all but vanished. "I just want to be crystal clear about this: if it has value, we\'re gonna steal it.
Description Don\'t miss the this exciting, New York Times bestselling adventure from Preston & Child, in which the secrets of a mysterious ancient tablet may point the way to untold treasure--or unspeakable danger
