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Introducing Gideon Crew: trickster, prodigy, master thief
GIDEON'S SWORD
At twelve, Gideon Crew witnessed his father, a world-class mathematician, indicted of fraud and gunned down.
At twenty-four, summoned to his failing mother's bedside, Gideon schooled a truth: His father was framed and deliberately slaughtered. With her final breath, she begged her son to revenge him.
Now, with a new purpose in his life, Gideon crafts a one-time goal of vengeance, directed during a perpetrator of his father's destruction. His devise is meticulous, spectacular, and successful.
But from a shadows, someone is watching. A really absolute someone, who is tender by Gideon's special skills. Someone who has need of usually such a renegade.
For Gideon, this operation might be usually a commencement . . .
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #17311 in Books
- Published on: 2011-11-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.00" h x 1.25" w x 4.25" l, .45 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 416 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Booklist
Gideon Crew, a favourite of Preston and Child’s new novel, has a difficult backstory. As a boy, he watched as his father, who had taken a male hostage, was shot down by a sniper. Less than a decade later, he schooled from his mom that his father had been used by a U.S. supervision as a victim for a unsuccessful comprehension project. After dispatching a male obliged for his father’s murder, Gideon is offering a pursuit with a private executive that does hush-hush work for a government. Gideon’s mission: to prevent a Chinese scientist and soothe him of a skeleton for a top-secret weapon. The goal doesn’t go as drawn, however, and Gideon is left with a puzzling fibre of numbers. Now, operative mostly alone, he contingency establish what a numbers mean. This novel (which is apparently a initial installment in a new series) isn’t as elegantly created or assembled as a authors’ renouned Special Agent Pendergast novels, though it does—once we get past a backstory—hold a reader’s interest, and Gideon is certainly a big-shouldered character, able of ancillary a series. --David Pitt
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"A feeling tour-de-force. The eponymous Gideon Crew would be equally gentle pound in a Ludlum snowstorm or striding onto a set of a Ocean's Eleven franchise. Preston and Child have crafted an electrifying, riveting thriller on that we could continue to store praise, though instead we will usually offer this: Read a book! And we can all demeanour brazen to a subsequent coming of Mr. Gideon Crew in a not-so-distant future." (David Baldacci on Gideon's Sword )
"Fast-paced and action-packed, Gideon's Sword is a clever, high quickness read." (Kathy Reichs on Gideon's Sword )
"When we review Preston and Child we know you're in for a disturb float and that's accurately what Gideon's Sword delivers. They are a remedy for boredom. Hold on parsimonious and let her rip; this float is value each penny." (Ted Dekker on Gideon's Sword )
About a Author
DOUGLAS PRESTON and LINCOLN CHILD are coauthors of a bestselling novels Relic, Mount Dragon, Reliquary, Riptide, Thunderhead, The Ice Limit, The Cabinet of Curiosities, Still Life with Crows, Brimstone, Dance of Death, The Book of a Dead, The Wheel of Darkness, Cemetery Dance, and Fever Dream. Douglas Preston, a unchanging writer to The New Yorker, worked for a American Museum of Natural History. He is an consultant horseman who has ridden thousands of miles opposite a West. Lincoln Child is a former book editor who has published 4 bestselling novels of his own. He is ardent about motorcycles, outlandish parrots, and nineteenth-century English literature. The authors inspire readers to revisit and send them e-mail during their Web site, www.prestonchild.com.
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274 of 288 people found a following examination helpful.
Preston & Child Fall On "Sword"
By Harvey Kojan
Gee, we roughly feel like a hypocrite essay this. I'm a Preston/Child completist (individual novels included). I've been active on their Facebook page, where -- distinct other authors -- they've done it a indicate to examination and respond to as many questions and comments as possible. So we feel a some-more personal tie to Doug & Linc than we do with any other authors. we wanted so many to adore this new sense and series.
Alas, "Gideon's Sword" is simply a weakest bid of their careers.
The whole thing feels "short." Short on piece and, especially, sense development. Doug & Linc customarily surpass during respirating life and abyss into their characters. Not here. The CIA representative is a many gross example. But even Gideon, who advantages from a extensive back-story that (somewhat awkwardly) opens a novel, usually doesn't seem "real" to me.
Any novel in this genre requires some Suspension Of (dis)Belief. But this story's "SOB" quotient is off a charts. There's copiousness of page-turning action, though a altogether knowledge is unsatisfying.
If you're usually finding Preston & Child, DON'T start here. They're many improved than this.
Here's anticipating "Gideon's Sword" is merely an instance of a flourishing heedfulness compared with stepping a bit out of your comfort section and formulating a code new sense and series. I'll certain be rooting like ruin that that's a case!
P.S. Please IGNORE any of a reviewer comments about a Kindle book being a "short story." The Kindle book contains a entire, 352-page novel. It also has a Q&A with a authors followed by a reward novel from Brad Meltzer. That's because a Kindle says "38% complete" when we get to a finish of a novel. It is NOT a "rip-off" by any means. As we mentioned above, "Gideon" FEELS short, though that's a biased opinion formed on content, not tangible length.
111 of 123 people found a following examination helpful.
A Fan is Very Disappointed
By stephen kronwith
This is a unequivocally initial novella examination I've ever created and usually a second overall. That usually shows how strongly we feel about this book. we have examination all a Preston and Child books and many of their particular ones. While some have been improved than others during slightest we got a sense they gave it a good shot and didn't usually mail it in for a paycheck. All their books make we postpone proof one approach or another, though a volume we had to postpone it in this one was too much. It was usually too unimaginable and too many "twists" that could be seen a mile away. And a crispness of it we consider usually proves that a authors unequivocally usually wanted to holder something out as discerning as possible, substantially to prove their publishers. Their misfortune bid by far. Save your money. Even a best have stinkers now and then. Hopefully a subsequent Pendergast will make adult for it. If not, it's on to other authors.
50 of 60 people found a following examination helpful.
Here's because this book wasn't as good as a rest...
By Smoochy
This book wasn't bad, though it positively wasn't good either. It reads like a muted film tract - no genuine depth, unimaginable twists and turns (like in a bad way), vast amounts of cessation of disbelief. It's no consternation it reads like a film plot... a authors were simply churning out a array to be constructed by Michael Bay, who Paramount chose as executive of a cinema this array has already been purchased for. With all a other Preston and Child books, we have large story lines all going during once. When we finish a chapter, we enter into another storyline. This wasn't a box with this book. You usually keep right on going with a same indicate of perspective - accurately like a film would. It unequivocally takes divided utterly a bit of a suspense.
Overall, this is a discerning fun read. we wish a subsequent books have a bit some-more abyss than this brief story. If you're deliberation this over another of a duo's work, get a other.
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