About the Authors
The thrillers of DOUGLAS PRESTON and LINCOLN CHILD “stand head and shoulders above their rivals” (Publishers Weekly). Preston and Child’s Relic and The Cabinet of Curiosities were chosen by readers in a National Public Radio poll as being among the one hundred greatest thrillers ever written, and Relic was made into a number one box office hit movie. They are coauthors of the famed Pendergast series, and their recent novels include White Fire, Blue Labyrinth, Crimson Shore, and The Lost Island. In addition to his novels, Preston writes about archaeology for the New Yorker and National Geographic magazines. Lincoln Child is a former book editor who has published six novels of his own, including the huge bestseller Deep Storm.
Readers can sign up for The Pendergast File, a monthly “strangely entertaining note” from the authors, at their website, www.PrestonChild.com. The authors welcome visitors to their alarmingly active Facebook page, where they post regularly.
Also by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Agent Pendergast novels
Crimson Shore
Blue Labyrinth
White Fire
Two Graves*
Cold Vengeance*
Fever Dream*
Cemetery Dance
The Wheel of Darkness
The Book of the Dead**
Dance of Death**
Brimstone**
Still Life with Crows
The Cabinet of Curiosities
Reliquary†
Relic†
(* The Helen Trilogy
** The Diogenes Trilogy
† Relic and Reliquary are ideally read in sequence)
Gideon Crew novels
The Lost Island
Gideon’s Corpse
Gideon’s Sword
Other novels
The Ice Limit
Thunderhead
Riptide
Mount Dragon
By Douglas Preston
The Kraken Project
Impact
The Monster of Florence (with Mario Spezi)
Blasphemy
Tyrannosaur Canyon
The Codex
Ribbons of Time
The Royal Road
Talking to the Ground
Jennie
Cities of Gold
Dinosaurs in the Attic
By Lincoln Child
The Forgotten Room
The Third Gate
Terminal Freeze
Deep Storm
Death Match
Lethal Velocity (formerly Utopia)
Tales of the Dark 1–3
Dark Banquet
Dark Company
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Preston, Douglas J., author. | Child, Lincoln, author.
Title: Beyond the ice limit : a Gideon Crew novel / Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child.
Description: First edition. | New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2016. | Series: Gideon crew series ; 4
Identifiers: LCCN 2015050544| ISBN 9781455525867 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781455566136 (large print) | ISBN 9781455588978 (int’l) | ISBN 9781478909118 (audio CD) | ISBN 9781478909125 (audio download) | ISBN 9781455525881 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Human-alien encounters—Fiction. | Antarctic Ocean | BISAC: FICTION / Thrillers. | GSAFD: Adventure fiction. | Science fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3566.R3982 B49 2016 | DDC 813/.54—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015050544
ISBNs: 978-1-4555-2586-7 (hardcover), 978-1-4555-2588-1 (ebook), 978-1-4555-8897-8 (int’l), 978-1-4555-6613-6 (large print)
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