Badlands

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

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Head of Zeus -- an Aries Book
02 December 2025

Crime & Mystery; Espionage & spy thriller; Horror & ghost stories

Series: Nora Kelly

The #1 New York Times bestselling authors return with a scintillating supernatural-themed thriller. Nora Kelly and Corrie Swanson investigate bizarre deaths in the New Mexico desert, but awaken an ancient evil.

In the New Mexico desert badlands, a woman's skeleton is found with two rare artefacts clutched in her hands: lightning stones used by the ancient Chaco people to summon the gods.

Was it suicide... or sacrifice?

FBI Special Agent Corrie Swanson brings in archaeologist Nora Kelly to investigate. When a second body is found in identical circumstances, they realise the case runs deeper than they imagined.

As Corrie and Nora pursue their investigation into remote canyons, haunted ruins, and long-lost rituals, they find themselves confronting a dark power that, disturbed from its long slumber, threatens to exact an unspeakable price.

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By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Imprint: Head of Zeus -- an Aries Book
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9781035915705
ISBN 10: 1035915707
Series: Nora Kelly
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 02 December 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Douglas Preston writes about archaeology for the New Yorker and National Geographic magazines, as well as novels and nonfiction works (such as The Lost City of the Monkey God). Lincoln Child is a Florida resident and former book editor who has published seven novels of his own, including such bestsellers as Full Wolf Moon and Deep Storm. Together, they write international #1 bestselling thrillers, including the Agent Pendergast adventures. Readers can sign up for The Pendergast File newsletter at PrestonChild.com. Visit www.facebook.com/PrestonandChild