Why we’re excited
Neanderthals brought back by a genetics experiment murder a wealthy couple near Vail, Colorado, and take their daughter. Cash and Colcord join an FBI agent hunting them through old mine tunnels. Meanwhile separate killings around the resort town suggest the Neanders have a plan and a target.
Douglas Preston co-writes the Pendergast novels with Lincoln Child, and his solo Cash and Colcord series began with Extinction and continued with Paradox. This is book three, so start with Extinction. Readers who like science-gone-wrong thrillers set in the American West should pay attention.
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What to know about Resurrection
Resurrection is Book 3 in the Cash & Colcord series. The series begins with Extinction. The book just before this one is Paradox.
We haven’t reviewed Douglas Preston before, so this would be our first look at their work.
From the publisher
In the third novel in the New York Times bestselling series that started with EXTINCTION, Cash and Colcord investigate a puzzling and shocking series of killings outside a resort town―the Neanders are back!
A billionaire and his wife are murdered in their mansion outside Vail, Colorado, and their daughter kidnapped by Neanderthals resurrected in a genetic experiment. Cash and Colcord team up with FBI Special Agent Makoto Ota to take charge of the investigation. While Ota ruthlessly pursues the Neanders through a vast and deep network of abandoned mines, the Vail summer season goes into full swing.
Meanwhile, a series of brutal but apparently unconnected killings take place outside the resort town, until Cash and Colcord realize the Neanders have a mysterious and ancient weapon, an ingenious plan―and a most unexpected target.
Books in the Cash & Colcord series
Extinction
Paradox
Resurrection
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We haven’t read Resurrection yet. When our review goes up, it will replace this page.
