Lincoln Child, born in Westport, a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, is a thriller writer. The writer has created many horror films. He co-authored most of the books with Douglas Preston.
Biography
Lincoln Child was born in 1957. He graduated from Carlton College in Norfield, a city in Minnesota. Child's specialization became English literature. In mid-1979, Lincoln joined the St. Martin's Press. For several years, the future writer went from his initial position to an editorial position. He received the desired promotion in 1984.
Despite a successful career in the publishing business, in 1987 Child Lincoln left his post at St. Martin's Press and leaves for MetLife, a programming and systems analysis company. A few years later, Lincoln became a professional writer and moved to New Jersey, where he lives with his wife and daughter.
Bibliography
For ease of perception, Lincoln's bibliography is usually divided into series and single novels. Douglas Preston became a co-author of the writer. The first non-serial novel was "Dragon Mountain". According to the plot of the book, two researchers, Guy Carson and Susan Cabeza de Vaca, create a therapeutic hormone against all influenza viruses. As a result of the tests, an unknown disease appears by chance. The novel, like many other works by Lincoln, is written in the genre of a technotriller. It is a hybrid that uses spy, sci-fi and military themes. Such stories describe in detail the technologies and principles of operation of technical devices, the internal mechanisms of espionage and politics.
The Vindictive Sword or The Island, written by Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston, was published in 1998 by Warner Books. The book revolves around a conspiracy to find pirate treasures. A $ 2 billion treasure that can kill the beholder. The novel is based on the legends of the money pit on Oak Island.
In the 1999 novel City of Gold, anthropologist Nora Kelly strangely receives a letter from her father, written 16 years ago. He talks about the discovery of the lost golden city of Kivir. Kelly immediately organizes an expedition to these rugged, remote regions of Utah.
In 2000, a team of writers created the novel "The Border of Ice". It tells the story of the meteorite hunter Nestor Masangkai, who arrives on the island for his prey. With the help of a topographic scanner, Masangkai receives confirmation that there is a huge meteorite underground. The hunter digs the ground and is killed by a powerful flash of light.
Two years later, the novel "Utopia" appears. This is the first book Lincoln wrote himself. The novel is about a futuristic amusement park that employs robots. This is followed by the 2004 novel Paradise of Death, about the potential for computers to find the perfect match for humans in the future. Child also wrote this book without a permanent co-author.
In 2007, Lincoln's solo novel From the Depths appears. It tells the story of a mysterious disease that appeared on a remote drilling rig. A couple of years later, the book Ice 15 was published about the events in Alaska, where a research group from an American university is studying the effect of global warming on a glacier. As a result, scientists discover an ancient monster frozen in ice.
In 2012, Child Lincoln writes the book The Third Gate. This is a novel about an expedition led by a famous archaeologist. Scientists are seeking to find the tomb of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Narmer. In 2015, the novel "The Forgotten Room" is published. The book tells about a researcher of unexplained phenomena. He investigates a series of frightening events in which people rush at others in anger and commit suicide. The 2017 novel Wolf Moon begins with the discovery of the disfigured corpse of a traveler. It becomes clear to the protagonist investigating this tragedy that mysterious forces could have taken place here.
Book series
From the pen of Child Lincoln and his co-author Douglas Preston, 2 book series were published. The first is about the adventures of Alois Pendergast. Pendergast is a Special Agent of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He works in New Orleans, Louisiana. Alois often travels outside his assigned state to investigate cases of interest to him. The agent's particular attention is drawn to cases that can be attributed to the actions of serial killers.
The series includes such books as the 1997 novel Reliquary, the 2002 book Cabinet of Curiosities, and the 2003 work Still Life with Crows. Also about the adventures of an FBI agent tells the 2004 novel "Fire and Brim" and the stories "Dance of Death", "Book of the Dead", "Wheel of Darkness", published each subsequent year. In 2007, the book "Dance in the Cemetery" was published, and then, from 2010 to 2016, the novels "Obsession", "Cold Vengeance", "Two Graves", "White Fire", "Blue Labyrinth", "Crimson Coast" and " Obsidian Temple ". After a two-year hiatus, the series continues with The City of Endless Night.
The second episode, which Lincoln and Preston donated to readers, tells the story of the life of Gideon Crewe. He looks like an ordinary young man working as an engineer. But in fact, Gideon is also a genius hacker, as well as an art thief. The writers have been working on the new series since 2011. It opens with the book The Sword of Gideon.
