The Scorpion's Tail

Resumen del libro

Following the acclaimed debut of Old Bones, this second "happily anticipated" new thriller in Preston x{0026} Child's series features Nora Kelly, archaeologist at the Santa Fe Archeological Institute, and rookie FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, as they team up to solve a mystery that quickly escalates into nightmare (Booklist).

A mummified corpse, over half a century old, is found in the cellar of an abandoned building in a remote New Mexico ghost town. Corrie is assigned what seems to her a throwaway case: to ID the body and determine cause of death. She brings archaeologist Nora Kelly to excavate the body and lend her expertise to the investigation, and together they uncover something unexpected and shocking: the deceased apparently died in agony, in a fetal position, skin coming off in sheets, with a rictus of horror frozen on his face.

Hidden on the corpse lies a 16th century Spanish gold cross of immense value.

When they at last identify the body -- and the bizarre cause of death -- Corrie and Nora open a door into a terrifying, secret world of ancient treasure and modern obsession: a world centered on arguably the most defining, frightening, and transformative moment in American history.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Douglas Prestonx{0026}lt;/B y Lincoln Child son coautores de las exitosas series de novelas protagonizadas por el agente especial del FBI Aloysius X. L. Pendergast, por un lado, y por el brillante Gideon Crew, por otro. Todos sus libros se han convertido en x{0026}lt;I best sellersx{0026}lt;/I internacionales.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P Douglas Preston ha trabajado en el Museo de Historia Natural de Nueva York y en la Universidad de Princeton. También ha publicado numerosos artículos científicos para x{0026}lt;I The New Yorkerx{0026}lt;/I .x{0026}lt;/P