THUNDERHEAD by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child - DOUBLE SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK
See all titles by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.Thunderhead is the story of a scientific expedition in the
deserts of the American Southwest. A team of scientists is looking for
the ancient city of Quivira, the mythical capital of the Anasazi
Indians, one of the most secretive and least understood of all Native
American tribes. Legend has it that Quivira was the repository for all
of the tribe's treasures — gold that countless Spanish conquistadors
lost their lives searching for. What the legends don't mention is why
the Anasazi vanished. Unknown to the expedition's leader, Nora Kelly —
an archaeologist whose father vanished 15 years earlier looking for
Quivira — the evil that befell the tribe is still around.
Nora, along with a group of
scientists, adventurers, and the daughter of the director of the Santa
Fe Archaeological Institute, starts to follow a tenuous map left by her
missing father, the early conveniences are quickly forgotten.
During the perilous journey, the team is dogged by two horrifying
creatures that will do anything to make certain the band doesn't find
the city. By ferryboat, by raft, and finally, by horse, the team
wanders deeper and deeper into southern Utah's deadly maze of canyons,
each step taking them closer to a place where nature's fury and an
ancient curse wait to destroy anyone who comes too close.
On
the verge of the greatest discovery since King Tut's tomb, Nora finds
her group falling apart — derailed by the hardships of their quest and
conflicting personal agendas. It's not long before their horses begin
to die mysteriously, and then some of the scientists. Cut off from the
outside world, with friends and coworkers dropping around her, Nora
must race to save her own life. She may have figured out what killed
the Anasazi - just in time to find it's killing her too.
