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Relic

by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Relic Cover

Synopses & Reviews

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Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human...

But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders.

Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who-or what-is doing the killing. But can she do it in time to stop the massacre?

Synopsis:

Days before a massive exhibition at the New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being murdered. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human. The museum's directors decide to go ahead with the bash in spite of the murders. Now museum researcher Margo Green must find out who or what is doing the killing. Does she have time to stop a massacre?

Synopsis:

- Print advertising in horror publications.
- Over 1.2 million copies of Preston & Child's Relic in print in North America!
- The Relic was a New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller.
- The Relic was a selection of the Literary Guild.
- The Relic was turned into a hit Paramount motion picture starring Tom Seizmore and Penelope Ann Miller.
- Tie-in with the new Douglas Preston hardcover, The Codex (0-765-30700-6, 1/04).

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crowyhead, August 22, 2006 (view all comments by crowyhead)
This is a great thriller -- it's kind of like Michael Crichton's best work, but in my opinion the writing overall is better and the characters are more interesting. It's hard to beat the Natural History Museum in New York as far as creepy settings go, too.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780812543261
Author:
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Publisher:
Tor Books
With:
Child, Lincoln
Author:
Preston, Douglas
Author:
Preston, Douglas J.
Author:
Child, Lincoln
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Thrillers
Subject:
New york (n.y.)
Subject:
Psychological
Subject:
Horror
Subject:
Horror fiction
Subject:
Indians of south america
Subject:
Horror tales
Subject:
Antiquities
Subject:
New York
Subject:
New York (N.Y.) Fiction.
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Horror - General
Copyright:
Edition Number:
1st mass market ed.
Edition Description:
First
Series Volume:
2
Publication Date:
January 1996
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
480
Dimensions:
6.84x4.18x1.25 in. .63 lbs.

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