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Douglas Preston


USA flag (b.1956)
Brother of Richard Preston

Douglas Preston was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1956, and grew up in the deadly boring suburb of Wellesley. His first job was as an editor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. His stint at the museum resulted in his first nonfiction book, Dinosaurs in the Attic, as well as his first novel, Relic, co-authored with Lincoln Child, which was made into a movie by Paramount Pictures. Relic was followed by a string of other thrillers co-written with Child, many featuring eccentric FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast. Preston spends his free time riding horses in New Mexico and gunkholing around the Maine coast in an old lobster boat. He counts in his ancestry the poet Emily Dickinson, the newspaperman Horace Greeley, and the infamous murderer and opium addict Amasa Greenough.
 


Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Literary Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
June 2025

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Badlands
(Nora Kelly, book 5)
Series
Agent Pendergast (with Lincoln Child)
   1. The Relic (1995)
   2. Reliquary (1997)
   3. The Cabinet of Curiosities (2002)
   4. Still Life with Crows (2003)
   5. Brimstone (2004)
   6. Dance of Death (2005)
   7. The Book of the Dead (2006)
   8. The Wheel of Darkness (2007)
   9. Cemetery Dance (2009)
   10. Fever Dream (2010)
   11. Cold Vengeance (2011)
   12. Two Graves (2012)
   12.5. Extraction (2012)
   13. White Fire (2013)
   14. Blue Labyrinth (2014)
   15. Crimson Shore (2015)
   16. The Obsidian Chamber (2016)
   17. City of Endless Night (2018)
   18. Verses for the Dead (2018)
   19. Crooked River (2020)
   20. Bloodless (2021)
   Aloysius X. L. Pendergast: A Mysterious Profile (2022)
   21. The Cabinet of Dr. Leng (2023)
   22. Angel of Vengeance (2024)
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Nora Kelly (with Lincoln Child)
   0.5. The Cabinet of Curiosities (2002)
   1. Old Bones (2019)
   2. The Scorpion's Tail (2021)
   3. Diablo Mesa (2022)
   4. Dead Mountain (2023)
   5. Badlands (2025)
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Wyman Ford
   1. Tyrannosaur Canyon (2005)
   2. Blasphemy (2007)
   3. Impact (2010)
   4. The Kraken Project (2014)
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Gideon Crew (with Lincoln Child)
   1. Gideon's Sword (2011)
   2. Gideon's Corpse (2012)
   3. The Lost Island (2014)
   4. Beyond the Ice Limit (2016)
   5. The Pharaoh Key (2018)
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Novels
   Jennie (1994)
   Mount Dragon (1996) (with Lincoln Child)
   Riptide (1998) (with Lincoln Child)
   Thunderhead (1999) (with Lincoln Child)
   The Ice Limit (2000) (with Lincoln Child)
   The Codex (2003)
   Fourteen Days (2023) (with others)
   Extinction (2024)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Gaslighted (2014) (with Lincoln Child and R L Stine)
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Non fiction show
 
Books containing stories by Douglas Preston
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FaceOff (2014)
edited by
David Baldacci
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Gone Fishing (2012)
And Other Stories
(Thriller)
edited by
James Patterson
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The Lineup (2009)
The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives
edited by
Otto Penzler

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Award nominations
2014 ITW Award for Best Hardcover Novel (nominee) : White Fire


Douglas Preston recommends
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The Oligarch's Daughter (2025)
Joseph Finder
"Joseph Finder has written some of the finest spy novels of our time, and he just keeps getting better. The Oligarch's Daughter, his latest, rockets the reader into the terrifying story of Paul Brightman, who innocently falls in love with a Russian oligarch's daughter and finds his life brutally overturned - forced to live under a false name, pursued by Russian killers, and forced to confront a malevolent conspiracy within the US government itself. On display is Finder's intricate and fascinating knowledge of spycraft, Russia, and intelligence. I highly, highly recommend this unrelenting thriller!'"
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Leave no Trace (2024)
(National Parks Thriller, book 1)
A J Landau
"Leave No Trace is an outstanding thriller, from its explosive opening to the final twist at the end. Highly, highly recommended!"
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Deep Freeze (2024)
(Revival , book 1)
Michael C Grumley
"A propelling story that seizes the reader from the opening and doesn't let go until the last shocking sentence. John Reiff, revived from the dead, is given a second chance at life, only to realize that something is very, very wrong... and he embarks on a quest to find the truth. A truly gripping read--I highly recommend it."

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