With satellite imaging, all-terrain trucks and computer analysis techniques, lost civilisations have disappeared faster than a new suburb can take over another farm.

In many ways, Thunderhead is a pleasant throwback/update to the type of lost-civilisation adventure novel that was so popular when our planet wasn’t so civilized. Also tagging along is Bill Smithback, the journalist protagonist of Preston and Child’s previous The Relic and Reliquary.

A few pages later, she’s headed in the wild with a group of explorers whose personalities will form a lot -but not most- of the book’s suspense. In fairly short order, she uses space-age techniques to track down a promising path and convinces a rich backer to finance her expedition. Suddenly, a letter from her father lands in her mailbox, a mystery that may reveals the location of the lost city and the fate of her father. Plucky heroine Nora Kelly is a gifted but unfocused archaeologist, following in the footsteps of an absent father who disappeared sixteen years previously on a quest to find Quivira, the lost city of the Anasazi in south-western Utah. It starts with a family trauma and a dash of archaeology. Most of their usual elements are somewhere to be found in here. As “commercial” writers whose objective is simply to make a living writing bestsellers, their modus operandis is clear after half a dozen such works… and Thunderhead is in no way a departure.

This will include tracking.Warner, 1999, 533 pages, C$9.99 mmpb, ISBN 7-8īy now, every serious beach reader should be familiar with Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s shtick. If your order contains only books, it will be sent via USPS Media Mail. If it is not as I described, you may return it (at my cost) for a full refund otherwise, you may return it in the same condition at your cost. Please contact me within 14 days of delivery. If you are not satisfied with the book, please let me know before you leave a review. only).įor example, a one-pound package could contain: Note that if all items are printed material, shipping can be by 'media mail', which is much less expensive (within the U.S. This makes multiple purchases very affordable. Items can be mixed (i.e., one magnet, one necklace, three books, etc), but they must all be purchased in the same order. Shipping costs are always combined on purchases from this shop.

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