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Lincoln Child

Author of Relic

92+ Works 78,414 Members 2,426 Reviews 98 Favorited

About the Author

Lincoln Child was born in Westport, Connecticut in 1957. He received a degree in English from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. After graduation, he obtained a position as an editorial assistant at St. Martin's Press and eventually became a full editor in 1984. He left St. Martin's Press show more in 1987 for a job at MetLife and began writing. Child has co-written numerous books with Douglas Preston including Relic, White Fire, Cold Vengeance, Riptide, Thunderhead, The Wheel of Darkness, Cemetery Dance, Gideon's Corpse, Blue Labyrinth, and Two Graves. In 2003, he published his first solo novel entitled Utopia. His other solo works include Death Match, Deep Storm, Terminal Freeze, The Third Gate, and The Forgotten Room. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Includes the names: Lincoln Child, Lincoln Childs

Disambiguation Notice:

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child are two different people, who have written books collaboratively and separately. Their author pages should not be combined with each other, or with any of the variants using both their names. See "Who Should/Shouldn't Get Combined" on the Author Wiki page. Thank you.

Series

Works by Lincoln Child

Relic (1995) 5,844 copies, 163 reviews
The Cabinet of Curiosities (2002) 4,419 copies, 121 reviews
Reliquary (1997) 3,979 copies, 93 reviews
The Book of the Dead (2006) 3,914 copies, 85 reviews
Brimstone (2004) 3,737 copies, 73 reviews
The Wheel of Darkness (2007) 3,458 copies, 80 reviews
Dance of Death (2005) 3,409 copies, 69 reviews
Still Life with Crows (2003) 3,372 copies, 96 reviews
Cemetery Dance (2009) 2,677 copies, 91 reviews
Fever Dream (2010) 2,533 copies, 91 reviews
Thunderhead (1999) 2,490 copies, 52 reviews
Riptide (1998) 2,370 copies, 51 reviews
The Ice Limit (2000) 2,165 copies, 42 reviews
Deep Storm (2007) 2,086 copies, 57 reviews
Mount Dragon (1996) 1,890 copies, 25 reviews
Cold Vengeance (2011) 1,848 copies, 77 reviews
Two Graves (2012) 1,765 copies, 70 reviews
White Fire (2013) 1,674 copies, 85 reviews
Gideon's Sword (2011) 1,642 copies, 102 reviews
Blue Labyrinth (2014) 1,471 copies, 74 reviews
Terminal Freeze (2009) 1,395 copies, 48 reviews
Crimson Shore (2015) 1,327 copies, 61 reviews
Utopia (2002) 1,326 copies, 26 reviews
Death Match (2004) 1,214 copies, 39 reviews
The Third Gate (2012) 1,133 copies, 62 reviews
The Obsidian Chamber (2016) 1,131 copies, 49 reviews
City of Endless Night (2018) 1,121 copies, 45 reviews
Old Bones (2019) 1,099 copies, 58 reviews
Gideon's Corpse (2012) 1,049 copies, 48 reviews
The Lost Island (2014) 1,003 copies, 38 reviews
Verses for the Dead (2018) 999 copies, 31 reviews
Bloodless (2021) — Author — 864 copies, 27 reviews
Crooked River (2020) 840 copies, 29 reviews
The Forgotten Room (2015) 812 copies, 43 reviews
The Scorpion's Tail (2021) 772 copies, 26 reviews
Beyond the Ice Limit (2016) 749 copies, 34 reviews
The Cabinet of Dr. Leng (2023) 690 copies, 22 reviews
The Pharoah Key (2018) 655 copies, 22 reviews
Diablo Mesa (2022) 622 copies, 22 reviews
Full Wolf Moon (2017) 563 copies, 23 reviews
Dead Mountain (2023) 507 copies, 10 reviews
Angel of Vengeance (2024) 390 copies, 12 reviews
Extraction (2012) 314 copies, 15 reviews
Chrysalis (2022) 277 copies, 8 reviews
Badlands (2025) 268 copies, 11 reviews
Pendergast: The Beginning (2026) 228 copies, 14 reviews
The Relic [1997 film] (1997) — Writer — 73 copies, 1 review
Gone Fishing [story] (2017) 26 copies, 1 review
The Strange Case of Monsieur Bertin (2019) 21 copies, 1 review
Two Graves [First 7 Chapters] (2012) 12 copies, 1 review
City of Endless Night [First 5 Chapters] (2017) 11 copies, 1 review
Tales of the Dark 3 (1988) — Editor — 9 copies
Tales of the Dark 2 (1987) — Editor — 9 copies
Tales of the Dark (1987) — Editor — 9 copies
Riptide / Mount Dragon (2004) 6 copies
Fever Dream (2010) 3 copies
FaceOff 2 copies
The Dr. Leng Trilogy (2024) 2 copies
Death Watch 1 copy
Dark Banquet 1 copy
Deep Storm 1 copy
Dark Company 1 copy

Associated Works

Thriller: Stories To Keep You Up All Night (2006) — Contributor — 843 copies, 15 reviews
FaceOff (2014) — Contributor — 574 copies, 35 reviews
Reader's Digest Select Editions 1998 v06 #240 (1998) — Author — 15 copies

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Common Knowledge

Other names
Preston, Lincoln
Birthdate
1957-10-13
Gender
male
Education
Carleton College
Occupations
book editor
novelist
Nationality
USA
Birthplace
Westport, Connecticut, USA
Places of residence
Morristown, New Jersey, USA
Sarasota, Florida, USA
Disambiguation notice
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child are two different people, who have written books collaboratively and separately. Their author pages should not be combined with each other, or with any of the variants using both their names. See "Who Should/Shouldn't Get Combined" on the Author Wiki page. Thank you.
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Reviews

2,601 reviews
Siempre me han llamado la atención los libros escritos a cuatro manos. No tengo claro cómo se coordinan a la hora de llevar a cabo el trabajo. ¿Un capítulo cada uno? ¿Uno tiene las ideas y otro redacta? Me parece que debe tener más ventajas que inconvenientes, ya que si uno de los dos se atasca en algún punto de la trama, siempre es más fácil salir del apuro consultando al otro. Lo que sí tengo claro es que el dúo Preston-Child realiza su trabajo de maravilla. Saben escribir, show more bien, muy bien.

‘El relicario’ (Reliquary, 1997) es la secuela de ‘The Relic (El ídolo perdido)’, primer libro de la serie del agente del FBI Pendergast, y absoluto best seller internacional, con adaptación cinematográfica incluida. Hay que empezar diciendo que este segundo libro es mucho mejor que el anterior. Tal vez pueda leerse de manera independiente, pero no lo aconsejo, ya que la historia retoma los hechos poco después de lo acontecido en ‘The Relic’ y es fácil perder todo el entramado que se forma alrededor.

En cuanto a la historia de ‘El relicario’, nos encontramos otra vez en Nueva York. La novela empieza con la aparición de dos esqueletos en las aguas residuales de un río, con claras deformidades. Es entonces cuando entran en la investigación viejos conocidos, como son el teniente D’Agosta y Margo Green, conservadora del Museo de Historia Natural. Parece que algo se está cociendo en los subterráneos de Manhattan, verdadero laberinto y un mundo aparte.

La acción no decae en ningún momento, y vamos conociendo un poco más al enigmático agente Pendergast, cuyo protagonismo es mayor que en la primera novela. Impresionante todo el tercio final, que se lee casi sin respiración. Douglas Preston y Lincoln Child dignifican el tan denostado (a mi entender injustamente) género del best seller.
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There are three iconic literary detectives to my mind. Sherlock Holmes, Nero Wolfe, and Aloysius Pendergast. All three are brilliant, have extraordinary powers of observation, and are charmingly quirky. Pendergast is back in action in the latest novel from Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Bloodless. This may be their best book since Relic!

Bloodless opens with a recounting of the hijacking by D. B. Cooper, who threatened to blow up a plane, received a ransom of $200,000, and disappeared out show more the back of the plane on a rainy night, never to be heard from again. Fifty years later, Pendergast is diverted from Florida to Savannah, Georgia, along with his reluctant partner, Agent Coldmoon, and his ward, Constance. Bodies have turned up completely drained of blood in the iconic Southern city and there is pressure to solve the crimes before panic sets in. Savannah is a ghost-haunted city and rumors of the Savannah Vampire are already stirring.

The mystery deepens as bodies continue to appear. The situation is complicated by the presence of a ghost-hunting TV crew as well as a novelist debunking paranormal investigators. Pendergast pursues the scant evidence and the potential link to the D. B. Cooper incident, that leads to a terrifying, unearthly evil.

Preston and Child are masters at creating an atmosphere that feels haunting and almost supernatural. They manage to marry an intense thriller with science that borders on the mystical. They bring Savannah to life with its history, architecture, pace of life, humidity, lush greenery, and its foreboding cemeteries. The characters are second to none, from the iconic Pendergast to his stolid partner Coldmoon, the strange Constance, and a cast of colorful interlopers.

Amazingly, Preston and Child recapture the wonder and thrill of the first Pendergast adventure with a story that pulls you in with its mystery, baffles and entertains you all along the way and concludes with a rush that will have you on the edge of your seat and flipping pages all the way to the end. Bloodless is one of the best entries in the series and one of the best thrillers of the year. Perfect for both long-time fans and new fans alike.

I was provided a copy of this book by the publisher.
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In The Pharaoh Key, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child pick up with Gideon Crew who learns that his medical condition and its associated death sentence continue to hang over his head. Meanwhile, his former employer – Eli Glinn, of Effective Engineering Solutions – has shut down the company following their most recent mission. Gideon and his coworker, Manuel Garza, are given the chance to clear out the remainder of their property from the office. Garza fumes over the unceremonious end to show more their jobs while Gideon feels apathetic. They learn that a computer program recently decrypted the Phaistos Disc, an ancient object with unknown writing and symbols. Thinking that it holds the secret to a treasure and wanting some last measure of security, Garza and Gideon heist the translation and plan an expedition to recover and sell whatever treasure the disc leads them to. They travel to a remote region of Egypt and find more and more complications, from disasters surrounding their means of travel to a compelling Lara Croft-type character named Imogen Blackburn to the discovery of an extant Coptic village in a mist valley cut off from the outside world. The story is a great adventure story from Preston & Child, masters of the thriller. They instantly drop the reader in the adventure, making them care about these characters while they take them from cliffhanger to cliffhanger. The story has a great MacGuffin that works well as a main subject for the quest while Imogen Blackburn nicely balances out the Gideon-Garza dynamic. Even as the twists and turns resemble an adventure serial, Preston & Child keep the reader involved and pay off their MacGuffin in a satisfying way. David W. Collins does an admirable job reading the story, creating distinct voices for each character with particular emphasis on Garza’s NYC accent. The story will appeal to fans of Gideon Crew and to Preston & Child’s writing. show less
Después de que el libro anterior de esta serie me quedara debiendo, Douglas Preston y Lincoln Child se han reivindicado conmigo con esta nueva entrega.

Éste, además de ser el décimo libro de la serie de Pendergast, es el primero de la trilogía de Helena, decir que como comienzo de trilogía es fabuloso, es quedarme corta, tiene mucha tela.

Para empezar cada libro que leo de esta serie, cada que me sorprende cuando me entero de cosas de la vida personal de Pendergast, no termina de show more sorprenderme, es un personaje tan enigmatico, tan complejo, que mucho de lo que me hace regresar a esta serie es precisamente este personaje, me han creado la necesidad de llegar al fondo de este personaje, claro que es un pozo sin fondo, imposible saber todo lo que uno quisiera sobre él.

Como siempre nuestro Aloysius se mete en una investigación fuera de la ley, como siempre saltándose las reglas, como siempre, está en medio de una situación donde corre en peligro su vida y la que lo acompañan en su investigación, sin embargo y a diferencia de la mayoría de las entregas anteriores, en esta ocasión no hay nada que caiga en lo fantasioso, es una investigación casi como de espías, un asesinato ocurrido muchos años atrás y cada cosa que se va revelando con relación a ese tema nos lleva a una aventura como las que ya nos tienen acostumbrados estos autores.

Me encanta, no estoy muy segura de que esta trilogía le llegue a la de Diógenes, pero sí que va a ser una de las buenas, llena de acción, asesinatos y una persecución de esas de adrenalina, sobre todo las sorpresas están a la orden del día.

¿He dicho que esta novela no es tan fantasiosa? Bueno, es verdad, pero nuestros autores no pueden dejar fuera el tema ¿verdad? Así que, sí, hay que esperar sorpresas de esas que tanto gustan en esta serie.

En esta ocasión no han dejado fuera a Constance, un personaje que se está convirtiendo junto con Pendergast, peculiar y también difícil de comprender.

Estos autores tienen en definitiva la fórmula perfecta del entretenimiento, cada libro me la paso genial leyéndolos, cada entrega me sorprende y se han convertido en poco tiempo en consentidos de mi estantería, me faltan muchos libros para ponerme al día con la serie, pero a diferencia de otras series que he comenzado y no he terminado, esta me ha atrapado desde el primer libro, a ver si este año logro ponerme al día y logro llegar al 18.

Sin duda una serie bastante recomendable para quien no se haya animado a leerla, sí que son muchos libros, pero vale la pena cada uno de ellos.
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Works
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Members
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Popularity
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Rating
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Reviews
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ISBNs
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Languages
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Favorited
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