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Description for White Fire
Paperback. Forensic pathologist Corrie Swanson investigates a brutal crime from 136 years ago. The key to the crime may just lie in a lost Sherlock Holmes story, a tale allegedly so horrifying that its author never dared publish it. Series: Agent Pendergast. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 28. Weight in Grams: 304.
Colorado, 1876: At a remote mining camp high in the Rocky Mountains, eleven silver miners are killed, their bodies horribly mutilated, flesh devoured. Bear attack? Not everyone thinks so. 136 years later, the cemetery where the miners were buried is being cleared for new development. Forensic pathologist Corrie Swanson has arranged to study the bones. What she discovers will expose a conspiracy that's as lethal today as it was a century ago. As the winter snows fall, Corrie's life depends on unravelling a dark secret... the key to which may just ... Read more
Colorado, 1876: At a remote mining camp high in the Rocky Mountains, eleven silver miners are killed, their bodies horribly mutilated, flesh devoured. Bear attack? Not everyone thinks so. 136 years later, the cemetery where the miners were buried is being cleared for new development. Forensic pathologist Corrie Swanson has arranged to study the bones. What she discovers will expose a conspiracy that's as lethal today as it was a century ago. As the winter snows fall, Corrie's life depends on unravelling a dark secret... the key to which may just ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Agent Pendergast
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784081065
SKU
V9781784081065
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Ref
99-5
About Douglas Preston
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child are the authors of internationally bestselling thrillers, including the Agent Pendergast adventures. Douglas lives in New Mexico, Lincoln in New Jersey.
Reviews for White Fire
'And still they come: fast-moving thrillers from the Preston/Child duo are mounting up in number, but each one has its own individual character' The Good Book Guide. 'A positively delicious serving of the great Sherlock Holmes. Great fun to the last page' Anne Rice. 'A terrific mix of mystery and the unexpected ... will keep you reading into the late ... Read more