Preston, Douglas J

"NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is designing a probe which will be dropped into the Kraken Mare, one of the methane seas of Titan. There, it will embark on a journey of exploration. As the probe is being tested at Goddard, things go awry, and an explosion kills seven scientists. The AI program in the probe, a powerful, self-modifying AI called "Dorothy," flees into the Internet. Series character Wyman Ford is tapped by the president's science advisor to track down the software with the help of Dorothy's creator, Melissa Shepherd. As the two of them trace Dorothy in her wanderings in cyberspace, they realize Dorothy's horrific experiences in the wasteland of the Internet have changed her--utterly. But for the better . . . or worse? At the same time, they learn Dorothy is being pursued by a pair of Wall Street high-frequency traders, who want to turn her into an algorithmic-trading slave-bot. Pursued relentlessly by the traders, Dorothy jumps out of the Internet into a child's toy robot, to hide. Now the only person standing between the murderous algo traders and Dorothy is a lonely, twelve-year-old boy living on an isolated bay on the coast of northern California. But is Dorothy bent on doing good . . . or on wiping out the cancer of the human race?"--.

"Special Agent Pendergast arrives at an exclusive Colorado ski resort to rescue his prot?g?e, Corrie Swanson, from serious trouble with the law when he uncovers a mysterious connection between long-dead miners and a fabled, long-lost Sherlock Holmes story--one that might just offer the key to an outbreak of modern day killings involving a deadly arsonist"--Provided by OCLC.

Relates the experiences of novelist Douglas Preston and crime reporter Mario Spezi as they try to track down the Monster of Florence, a serial killer who targeted lovers parked in their cars.

When a meteorite possessing secrets about human evolution is discovered in a desolate region of Chile, an expedition team sets out to recover it but finds increasing mysteries and dangerous challenges along the way.

Gideon Crew tracks a terrorist cell from New York to New Mexico as the evidence mounts that a nuclear attack by terrorists is imminent.

Deceased special FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast finds himself in a battle with his dead brother Diogenes, who has begun killing all the people who were close to Aloysius when he was alive. As the brothers battle, a related war rages inside the New York Museum of Natural History over ancient relics.

A sequel to "The Relic" which has NYPD Lt. D'Agosta, Natural History Museum curator Margo Green, and a host of returning characters involved in a new investigation spurred by the discovery of the decapitated remains of a New York socialite and a sharp increase in the decapitation rate among the city's underground homeless.

New York archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Special Agent Pendergast try to solve a 130-year-old serial murder case after the dismembered remains of thirty-six people are found on the site of a nineteenth-century moneymaking spectacle called a "cabinet of curiosities.".

Archaeologist Nora Kelly finds a letter written by her father that holds clues to an ancient city of gold. She leads a team into the Utah wilderness to find the city where a whole civilization mysteriously vanished. As Nora and her team members get closer to finding answers to these mysteries, a deadly storm unleashes its power.

Margo must race against time, death and an enemy so horrifying that she must find the strength within herself to destroy it and save the Museum from disaster.