Name: Infierno de Hielo (in Spanish)
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Author: Douglas Preston
ISBN: 9788466346221

Type

Physical Book

Author

Lincoln Child

Douglas Preston

Publisher

Debolsillo

Collection

Best Seller

Year

2019

Language

Spanish

Pages

400

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19x12.5 cm

ISBN13

9788466346221

Edited in

España

Edition No.

001

Synopsis "Infierno de Hielo (in Spanish)"

En esta nueva aventura, Gideon Crew se enfrenta al caso más peligroso de su historia. «Esa cosa está creciendo de nuevo. Hay que destruirla. Y hay que hacerlo ya.»Hace cinco años Eli Glinn trató de recuperar un meteorito gigantesco de una isla remota en el cabo de Hornos, en la punta de Sudamérica. La misión acabó en desastre, pues su embarcación se hundió en una tormenta salvaje en aguas antárticas y arrastró el cargamento a las profundidades del océano. Perecieron más de cien tripulantes, y Eli Glinn quedó paralítico.El meteorito, sin embargo, no era una simple piedra. Ese organismo complejo llegado del espacio ha echado raíces en el fondo marino y está creciendo. O se destruye o el planeta está condenado. La única esperanza es que Glinn y su equipo lo aniquilen, tarea para la que requieren la experiencia de Gideon en armas nucleares. No obstante, pronto descubrirán que el «meteorito» tiene ideas propias y entre ellas no se halla quedarse tranquilo.ENGLISH DESCRPTION That thing is growing again. We must destroy it. The time to act is now... With these words begins Gideon Crew's latest, most dangerous, most high-stakes assignment yet. Failure will mean nothing short of the end of humankind on earth.Five years ago, the mysterious and inscrutable head of Effective Engineering Solutions, Eli Glinn, led a mission to recover a gigantic meteorite—the largest ever discovered—from a remote island off the coast of South America. The mission ended in disaster when their ship, the Rolvaag, foundered in a vicious storm in the Antarctic waters and broke apart, sinking-along with its unique cargo-to the ocean floor. One hundred and eight crew members perished, and Eli Glinn was left paralyzed.But this was not all. The tragedy revealed something truly terrifying: the meteorite they tried to retrieve was not, in fact, simply a rock. Instead, it was a complex organism from the deep reaches of space.Now, that organism has implanted itself in the sea bed two miles below the surface-and it is growing. If it is not destroyed, the planet will be doomed. There is only one hope: for Glinn and his team to annihilate it, a task which requires Gideon's expertise with nuclear weapons. But as Gideon and his colleagues soon discover, the "meteorite" has a mind of its own-and it has no intention of going quietly...

Lincoln Child

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Lincoln Child is an American author born on October 13, 1957 in Westport, Connecticut. He is known for his thriller and techno-thriller novels, many of them co-written with Douglas Preston. Before turning to writing, he worked as an editor at St. Martin's Press, where he founded the horror division of the publishing house. Later, he served as a systems analyst at MetLife until his first novel, "The Relic" (1995), written with Preston, allowed him to dedicate himself full-time to literature.

Among his most notable works are "The Cabinet of Curiosities" (2002) and "Dance of Death" (2005), both co-written with Preston and belonging to the thriller genre. Additionally, he has developed the series starring Professor Jeremy Logan, which includes titles such as "The Forgotten Room" (2015). Several of his novels have been New York Times bestsellers, consolidating his reputation in the field of suspense and mystery literature.

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Douglas Preston

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Douglas Preston is an American writer and journalist born on May 26, 1956, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is known for his suspense and techno-thriller novels, many of which are co-written with Lincoln Child. Before turning to writing, he worked as an editor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught non-fiction writing at Princeton University. Additionally, he has contributed articles on archaeology and anthropology for The New Yorker magazine.

Among his most notable works are "The Lost Idol" (1995) and "The Relic" (1997), both co-written with Lincoln Child and belonging to the suspense genre. He is also the author of "The Lost City of the Monkey God" (2017), a non-fiction work that narrates the search for a legendary city in Honduras. Several of his novels have been bestsellers in The New York Times, solidifying his reputation in the literature of mystery and adventure.

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