One of the holiest relics in Christendom, weirdly defaced…
A crazy old prospector, ritualistically murdered…
A controversial exobiologist, tortured with a “Spanish Boot” and dismembered…
When a recluse is found dead under grisly circumstances in the Colorado wilderness, CBI Agent Frankie Cash and Eagle County Sheriff Jim Colcord team up on their most enigmatic and dangerous case yet. Their investigation uncovers a trail of bizarre killings, a fanatical secret society, baffling money transfers, and finally to a cabal of UFO researchers searching for an alien artifact they believe will change the world.
And all the while, the resurrected Neanderthals who vanished into the Colorado mountains seem to be planning something… spectacular.
“A book to be savored as the plot twists and turns.”
—John Grisham, #1 New York Times bestselling author
“As thought-provoking as it is thrilling . . . Doug and Aletheia Preston have deservedly entered the realm of thriller superstardom.”
—David Baldacci, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Author Information
DOUGLAS PRESTON has published forty books of both nonfiction and fiction, of which thirty-one have been New York Times bestsellers, a half-dozen reaching the #1 position. He is the co-author, with Lincoln Child, of the Pendergast series of thrillers. He also writes nonfiction pieces for the New Yorker. He worked as an editor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. He is president emeritus of the Authors Guild and serves on the Advisory Board of the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe.
ALETHEIA PRESTON is a reformed lawyer originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico. After working as a prosecutor in San Francisco, she moved into private practice as a trial attorney before embarking on a journey as a writer. She is a lover of thriller and science fiction novels and has been an avid reader and writer in both genres since she was a little girl.
An admitted adrenaline junkie, Aletheia spends much of her free time outdoors finding ways to risk her life, from skiing and mountaineering to paragliding and winter camping. She is also a PADI certified deepwater and wreck scuba diver. Fluent in Italian and Spanish, she spent much of her childhood in Florence, Italy. She and her cat Mochi live in Bozeman, Montana.