Gideon Crew Series: The Lost Island : A Gideon Crew Novel (Series #3) (CD-Audio)

from JeffV

This is the third book of the Gideon Crew series by Preston and Child. I liked the other two a lot. Gideon Crew is a talented thief recruited to work for a black ops organization. He has a fatal congenital brain disorder and has a very limited life span. At the time of this book, he has an estima...

from stevrbee

Thriller with a mix of story elements - like a mash up of Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, King Kong and The DaVinci Code. It's a quick read that keeps throwing twists at you, but in the end just a little too formulaic.

from jmoncton

I have mixed feelings about this book. It is the 3rd in the Gideon Crew series and I didn't read the first 2 books. I liked the premise behind Gideon's character - a brilliant scientist with questionable morals that are stressed even more by a terminal illness. He has that Indiana Jones type of p...

from DLMorrese

In some ways this book reads like a nineteenth century adventure novel with lost islands, treasure-hunting pirates, a mythical monster, questionable technology, and a rich (and arguably mad) genius pulling the strings. It's fun and I enjoyed it, but it would probably work better in an clearly sci...

from burnit99

Gideon Crew, scientist and master thief, has a neurological time bomb in his head that will kill him in less than a year, and works for an employer, Eli Glinn, who often sends him on impossible missions. The latest one is to steal a page from the Book of Kells. He succeeds against all odds, and t...