《亡靈之書》講述一個輝煌的聯邦調查局特工，為了一個極度安全的監獄中謀殺他沒有承諾。他的輝煌，精神的兄弟，要製造一個可怕的犯罪。一位年輕婦女抱著一個非凡的過去，邊緣暴力故障。
基本介紹
- 中文名：亡靈之書
- 別名：The Book of the Dead
- 作者：Douglas Preston，Lincoln Child
- 出版社： Grand Central Pub
- 出版時間：2007年07月01日
- 頁數：640 頁
- 定價：59.1 元
- 裝幀：平裝
- ISBN：9780446618502
- 紙張：膠版紙
- 語種：英文
內容提要,作者情況,
內容提要
原文
A brilliant FBI agent, rotting away in a high security prison for a murder he did not commit. His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime. A young woman with an extraordinary past, on the edge of a violent breakdown. An ancient Egyptian tomb about to be unveiled at a celebrity-studded New York gala, an enigmatic curse released.
作者情況
普雷斯頓的第一份工作是做一個作家對美國自然歷史博物館在紐約——一個八年階段,導致他的第一本書的出版,恐龍在閣樓和他介紹給他未來的寫作夥伴,林肯的孩子,然後計算作為一個編輯在領取馬丁的出版社。這兩個人保稅,因為他們工作在這本書上緊密聯繫在一起。
原文
Douglas Preston was born in 1956 in Cambridge, MA, was raised in nearby Wellesley (where, by his own admission, he and his brothers were the scourge of the neighborhood!), and graduated from Pomona College in California with a degree in English literature.
Preston's first job was as a writer for the American Museum of Natural History in New York -- an eight year stint that led to the publication of his first book, Dinosaurs in the Attic and introduced him to his future writing partner, Lincoln Child, then working as an editor at St. Martin's Press. The two men bonded, as they worked closely together on the book
