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Lincoln Child

Author of Relic

Includes the names: Lincoln Child, Lincoln Childs

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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 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) — biography from Deep Storm… (more)
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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.

Relic 5,015 copies, 143 reviews
The Cabinet of Curiosities 3,889 copies, 110 reviews
Reliquary 3,465 copies, 80 reviews
The Book of the Dead 3,408 copies, 80 reviews
Brimstone 3,291 copies, 66 reviews
The Wheel Of Darkness 2,990 copies, 74 reviews
Dance of Death 2,961 copies, 62 reviews
Still Life with Crows 2,943 copies, 83 reviews
Cemetery Dance 2,267 copies, 81 reviews
Thunderhead 2,176 copies, 44 reviews
Fever Dream 2,129 copies, 84 reviews
Riptide 2,090 copies, 44 reviews
The Ice Limit 1,889 copies, 40 reviews
Deep Storm 1,790 copies, 50 reviews
Mount Dragon 1,685 copies, 18 reviews
Cold Vengeance 1,498 copies, 69 reviews
Two Graves 1,438 copies, 64 reviews
Gideon's Sword 1,334 copies, 89 reviews
White Fire 1,305 copies, 78 reviews
Terminal Freeze 1,183 copies, 44 reviews
Utopia 1,166 copies, 23 reviews
Blue Labyrinth 1,149 copies, 71 reviews
Death Match 1,091 copies, 33 reviews
Crimson Shore 1,007 copies, 54 reviews
The Third Gate 937 copies, 58 reviews
Gideon's Corpse 862 copies, 39 reviews
The Obsidian Chamber 823 copies, 45 reviews
City of Endless Night 795 copies, 41 reviews
The Lost Island 755 copies, 30 reviews
Old Bones 678 copies, 45 reviews
Verses for the Dead 651 copies, 28 reviews
The Forgotten Room 640 copies, 39 reviews
Beyond the Ice Limit 539 copies, 29 reviews
Crooked River 512 copies, 25 reviews
The Pharoah Key 446 copies, 15 reviews
The Scorpion's Tail 427 copies, 19 reviews
Full Wolf Moon 426 copies, 19 reviews
Bloodless (Author) 414 copies, 18 reviews
Diablo Mesa (Author) 282 copies, 11 reviews
Extraction 267 copies, 14 reviews
Chrysalis 138 copies, 6 reviews
The Relic [1997 film] (Writer) 45 copies, 1 review
Tales of the Dark 2 (Editor) 9 copies
Tales of the Dark (Editor) 9 copies
Tales of the Dark 3 (Editor) 8 copies

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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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