White Fire (novel)

White Fire
Hardcover first edition
Author	Douglas Preston Lincoln Child
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Pendergast
Genre	Thriller
Publisher	Grand Central Publishing
Publication date	November 12, 2013
Media type	Print, e-book, audiobook
Pages	384 pp.
ISBN	1-455-52583-9
Preceded by	Two Graves
Followed by	Blue Labyrinth

White Fire is a thriller novel by American writers Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. It was released on November 12, 2013 by Grand Central Publishing.^[1] This is the thirteenth book in the Special Agent Pendergast series.^[2] The preceding novel is Two Graves.

Plot

Corrie Swanson sets out to solve a long-forgotten mystery. In 1876, in a remote mining camp called Roaring Fork in the Colorado Rockies, several miners were killed in devastating grizzly bear attacks. Now the town has become an exclusive ski resort and its historic cemetery has been dug up to make way for development. Corrie has arranged to examine the remains of the dead miners. But in doing so she makes a shocking discovery that threatens the resort's very existence. The town's leaders, trying to stop her from exposing their community's dark and bloody past, arrest and jail her. Special Agent Pendergast of the FBI arrives to help—just as a series of brutal arson attacks on multimillion-dollar homes terrify the town and drive away tourists. Drawn irresistibly into the investigation, Pendergast discovers an unlikely secret in Roaring Fork's past, connecting the resort to a chance meeting between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde. With the town under siege, and Corrie's life in desperate danger, Pendergast must solve the riddle of the past... before the town of present goes up in flames.

Reception

Sherlock Holmes fans will relish Preston and Child’s 13th novel featuring eccentric FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast (after 2012’s Two Graves), one of their best in this popular series. ... Lee Child, Clive Cussler, Anne Rice, and Peter Straub have all supplied blurbs for this installment, which easily stands on its own with only passing references to Pendergast’s complex backstory. Agent: Eric Simonoff, WME. (Nov.)

—Review by Publishers Weekly^[3]

References

↑ White Fire (Pendergast) Hardcover
↑ White Fire Pendergast #13)
↑ "White Fire". publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2015-01-07.

External links

Works by Douglas Preston and/or Lincoln Child

Agent Pendergast series

Relic (1995)
Reliquary (1997)
The Cabinet of Curiosities (2002)
Still Life with Crows (2003)
Brimstone (2004)
Dance of Death (2005)
The Book of the Dead (2006)
The Wheel of Darkness (2007)
Cemetery Dance (2009)
Fever Dream (2010)
Cold Vengeance (2011)
Two Graves (2012)
White Fire (2013)
Blue Labyrinth (2014)
Crimson Shore (2015)
The Obsidian Chamber (2016)

Gideon Crew series

The Ice Limit (2000) Series Prequel
Gideon's Sword (2011)
Gideon's Corpse (2012)
The Lost Island (2014)
Beyond the Ice Limit (2016)

Other novels

Mount Dragon (1996)
Riptide (1998)
Thunderhead (1999)

Characters

Douglas Preston

Tom Broadbent series	The Codex (2004) Tyrannosaur Canyon (2005)

Wyman Ford series	Tyrannosaur Canyon (2005) Blasphemy (2008) Impact (2010) The Kraken Project (2014)

Other novels	Jennie (1994)

Other works	The Monster of Florence (2008, with Mario Spezi)

Characters	Wyman Ford

Lincoln Child

Jeremy Logan series	Deep Storm (2007) Terminal Freeze (2009) The Third Gate (2012) The Forgotten Room (2015)

Other novels	Utopia (2002) Death Match (2004)

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