Paradox - Douglas Preston & Aletheia Preston

Paradox

ByDouglas Preston & Aletheia Preston

  • Release Date: 2026-04-21
  • Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Score: 4
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From 192 Ratings

Description

The new powerhouse team of Douglas Preston & Aletheia Preston are joining together to "enter the world" of the New York Times bestselling Extinction.

One of the holiest relics in Christendom, inexplicably defaced…

A paranoid old prospector, ritualistically murdered…

A controversial exobiologist, tortured and dismembered…

When a reclusive man is found dead under grisly circumstances in the Colorado wilderness, CBI Agent Frankie Cash and Eagle County Sheriff Jim Colcord, whom we met in the New York Times bestseller, Extinction, team up again on their most enigmatic and dangerous case yet. Their investigation uncovers a trail of bizarre killings, baffling money transfers, and a fanatical secret society.

And all the while, the resurrected Neanderthals, who vanished into the Colorado mountains, seem to be biding their time for something…spectacular.

“A book to be savored as the plot twists and turns.”
—John Grisham, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“As thought-provoking as it is thrilling . . . Doug and Aletheia Preston have deservedly entered the realm of thriller superstardom.”
—David Baldacci, #1 New York Times bestselling author

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Reviews

  • So Sad-One of my favorite writers

    2
    By Susanonor
    I have read most of what Douglas Preston has written solo and with Lincoln Child, and have always enjoyed the work. It was always well written and never made me stop mid-read because of some awful grammatical, writing, or plotting errors. I hate being taken out of the story and being made to long for a red pen. This book did that time and again. I know his co-writer is his daughter and that is sweet but just no. There was a concerted, awkward effort to incorporate a whole lot of liberal politics. I’m very much in favor of liberal politics but I want the info to flow naturally and have some degree of subtlety and this was anything but. The names felt like some someone deconstructed a dictionary and then threw darts at the pages to pick them. The editing was lacking. There were too many instances of strange phrasing. The plot ended abruptly with no real explanation or resolution. It felt like someone got tired of writing and decided to do a quick wrap up. So much explanation lacking, so many loose ends. I am so sad but at least I know not to waste my money on the next book. I didn’t even read the sample.

  • Boring

    1
    By Gyrfalcon56
    I want my money back

  • Paradox

    1
    By mward385
    Terribly WOKE story line. It reads like a story written to support WOKE ideology.

  • Really disappointing

    2
    By Boomdoggie
    Preston’s worst book by far, and I’ve read them all, including his co-efforts with other authors.
    The plot in this one seems like Dan Brown ripped off the history channel. It is trite, predictable, repetitive, with massive procedural and technical inaccuracies, despite being overly specific about certain types of technologies.
    Most characters lacked development, others, and their side stories were ultimately irrelevant to the plot or not wrapped up in context (and yet not left in a cliffhanger way that would indicate they would be in a sequel).
    Preston as a writer is so much better than this, and you can tell it was a co-effort because you can distinguish his writing from that of his co-author.
    It also had a lot of personal politics, inserted that added absolutely nothing to the plot and seemed to be there, strictly for pandering purposes, or to appear ‘enlightened’. There’s also an extremely weird focus on women and their bodies, especially older and heavier women, and it’s condescending in a way that comes off as the writer of those parts thinks they are positive. It’s very strange.

    This book could’ve been so much better than it was; instead, it was over ambitious and lacking development

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