Outrageous and entertaining.
Outlandish and silly.
And entertaining. 😀
Part of the Gideon Series:
- Gideon’s Sword
- Gideon’s Corpse
- The Lost Island
- Beyond the Ice Limit
- The Pharaoh Key
Gideon’s Sword is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. (2011) …
… first installment in the Gideon Crew series.
The story introduces Gideon Crew, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who is also a former art thief and master-of-disguise.
He learns from his mother that his mathematician father—who had developed a flawed encryption—had actually warned his boss about the flaws, only to be murdered.
Gideon exacts revenge from his father’s murderer.
As a result of this, he is recruited to be a freelance operative by an ultra-private security and engineering firm working for the Department of Homeland Security.
His mission: to trace and retrieve plans for a mysterious super-weapon being brought to the United States of America by a Chinese scientist before the Chinese can recover them.
Rick McCharles 