Reliquary
Authors: Douglas Preston,Lincoln Child
Tags: #Police Procedural, #Fiction - Psychological Suspense, #Natural history museum curators, #Mystery & Detective, #Horror tales, #Horror, #New York (N.Y.), #Monsters, #General, #Psychological, #Underground homeless persons, #Horror & Ghost Stories, #Modern fiction, #Suspense Fiction, #Horror - General, #Thrillers, #Horror fiction, #Fiction, #Subterranean, #Civilization
Praise for
Relic
“Want to pick up a thriller that arrives with the kinetic energy of a meteor smacking the Earth? Read
Relic
[for] some of the most riveting passages ever contained between two covers. No debate, no dispute. These guys are masters at scaring the hell out of people.”
--
The Tampa Tribune
“Better than anything the theoretically recombinant team of Michael Crichton and Peter Benchley could ever hope to achieve.”
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Albuquerque Journal
“Far above Crichton’s
Jurassic Park
.”
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Booklist
“What might happen if a creature from
Jurassic Park
came to New York City.”
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Chicago Tribune
“Wildly cool. ... Thrill hounds couldn’t ask for a creepier environment. ... A thriller staged in the world’s scariest building, with no room for the squeamish.”
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Kirkus Reviews
“
Jaws
takes Manhattan.”
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San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle
“
Relic
is a straight thriller. That’s like saying, however, that
Die Hard
was just another action adventure flick or that
Gone With the Wind
was just another Civil War film. Each stands as a superlative example of its type.”
--
Orlando Sentinel
By Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child from
Tom Doherty Associates
Relic
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Reliquary
RELIQUARY
DOUGLAS PRESTON
LINCOLN CHILD
A TOM DOHERTY ASSOCIATES BOOK
NEW YORK
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NOTE: If you purchased this book without a cover you should be aware that this book is stolen property. It was reported as “unsold and destroyed” to the publisher, and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this “stripped book.”
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
RELIQUARY
Copyright © 1997 by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.
A Tor Book
Published by Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.
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New York, NY 10010
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Tor® is a registered trademark of Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.
ISBN: 0-812-54283-5
Library of Congress Card Catalog Number: 96-53533
First edition: May 1997
First international mass market edition: June 1998
First mass market edition: July 1998
Printed in the United States of America
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Contents
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