Author: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Published: February 15th 2022 by Grand Central Publishing
Format: Kindle,Hardcover, 400 pages
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for an opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
Series: Nora Kelly #3
First Sentence: Dr. Marcelle Weingrau, president of the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute, slowly unfolded her hands on the glossy expanse of desk in front of her.
Blurb: Lucas Tappan, a wealthy and eccentric billionaire and founder of Icarus Space Systems, approaches the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute with an outlandish proposal—to finance a careful, scientific excavation of the Roswell Incident site, where a UFO is alleged to have crashed in 1947. A skeptical Nora Kelly, to her great annoyance, is tasked with the job.
Nora's excavation immediately uncovers two murder victims buried at the site, faces and hands obliterated with acid to erase their identities. Special Agent Corrie Swanson is assigned to the case. As Nora’s excavation proceeds, uncovering things both bizarre and seemingly inexplicable, Corrie’s homicide investigation throws open a Pandora's box of espionage and violence, uncovering bloody traces of a powerful force that will stop at nothing to protect its secrets—and that threatens to engulf them all in an unimaginable fate.
My Opinion: When it comes to the writing team of Preston Child, I need to read with a dictionary in one hand and easy access to Google in the other. This team constantly teaches me something new and tends to send me down fascinating rabbit holes.
Archaeologist Nora Kelly, FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, which I must admit mixing-up a time or two, and tech billionaire Lucas Tappan—an amalgamation of two well-known space cowboys—take their audience on a thought-provoking history lesson and the interworking’s of government agencies and dollars.
Once I picked up this book, I had a hard time putting it down unless I was searching Google. The flow and energy stay consistent, and the writing team keeps their readers on their toes. Will the subject matter make some readers roll their eyes? Possibly, but isn’t that what fiction, conspiracy theories, and wandering outside of our comfort zones is all about?
For those that are sensitive – the dog does not die.
Blurb: Lucas Tappan, a wealthy and eccentric billionaire and founder of Icarus Space Systems, approaches the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute with an outlandish proposal—to finance a careful, scientific excavation of the Roswell Incident site, where a UFO is alleged to have crashed in 1947. A skeptical Nora Kelly, to her great annoyance, is tasked with the job.
Nora's excavation immediately uncovers two murder victims buried at the site, faces and hands obliterated with acid to erase their identities. Special Agent Corrie Swanson is assigned to the case. As Nora’s excavation proceeds, uncovering things both bizarre and seemingly inexplicable, Corrie’s homicide investigation throws open a Pandora's box of espionage and violence, uncovering bloody traces of a powerful force that will stop at nothing to protect its secrets—and that threatens to engulf them all in an unimaginable fate.
My Opinion: When it comes to the writing team of Preston Child, I need to read with a dictionary in one hand and easy access to Google in the other. This team constantly teaches me something new and tends to send me down fascinating rabbit holes.
Archaeologist Nora Kelly, FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, which I must admit mixing-up a time or two, and tech billionaire Lucas Tappan—an amalgamation of two well-known space cowboys—take their audience on a thought-provoking history lesson and the interworking’s of government agencies and dollars.
Once I picked up this book, I had a hard time putting it down unless I was searching Google. The flow and energy stay consistent, and the writing team keeps their readers on their toes. Will the subject matter make some readers roll their eyes? Possibly, but isn’t that what fiction, conspiracy theories, and wandering outside of our comfort zones is all about?
For those that are sensitive – the dog does not die.
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