The scorpion's tail / [Douglas] Preston & [Lincoln] Child.
Material type:
SoundPublisher number: 133501932-Y4227 | Hachette AudioSeries: Preston, Douglas J. Nora Kelly novel ; bk. 2.Publisher: New York : Hachette Audio, [2021]Copyright date: ©℗2021Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 10 audio discs (approximately 12 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - spoken word
- audio
- audio disc
- 9781549142277
- 1549142275
- Kelly, Nora (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Swanson, Corrie (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Officials and employees -- Fiction
- Museum curators -- Fiction
- Archaeologists -- Fiction
- Historians -- Fiction
- Mummies -- Fiction
- New Mexico -- Fiction
- Audiobooks -- Fiction
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Main Library | Audiobook | MYSTERY PRESTON, DOUGLAS | Available | 33111009921517 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From #1 bestselling authors Preston & Child comes a thrilling novel following archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson as they work together to solve a twisted crime that reaches far beyond any of their worst fears.
Following the acclaimed debut of Old Bones , this second "happily anticipated" new thriller in Preston & Child's series features Nora Kelly, archaeologist at the Santa Fe Archeological Institute, and rookie FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, as they team up to solve a mystery that quickly escalates into nightmare ( Booklist) .
A mummified corpse, over half a century old, is found in the cellar of an abandoned building in a remote New Mexico ghost town. Corrie is assigned what seems to her a throwaway case: to ID the body and determine cause of death. She brings archaeologist Nora Kelly to excavate the body and lend her expertise to the investigation, and together they uncover something unexpected and shocking: the deceased apparently died in agony, in a fetal position, skin coming off in sheets, with a rictus of horror frozen on his face.
Hidden on the corpse lies a 16th century Spanish gold cross of immense value.
When they at last identify the body -- and the bizarre cause of death -- Corrie and Nora open a door into a terrifying, secret world of ancient treasure and modern obsession: a world centered on arguably the most defining, frightening, and transformative moment in American history.
Title from container.
Read by Cynthia Farrell.
Compact disc.
A sequel to Old Bones finds FBI agent Corrie Swanson and Santa Fe archaeologist Nora Kelly investigating the mummified corpse of a long-dead victim who died in agony while holding a mysterious 16th-century gold cross.