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Sep 25: #1 NYT Thriller Authors Preston & Child with Angel of Vengeance

A desperate bargain is broken. A clever trap set. And a vengeful angel will not be deterred.

Angel of Vengeance with authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Thrilled to have The OG of fiction collaborators join Conversations Live with Vicki St. Clair today: Preston & Child, with their new thriller, Angel of Vengeance.

In Angel of Vengeance, Preston & Child continue their #1 bestselling series featuring FBI Special Agent Pendergast and Constance Greene, as they take a final stand against New York’s deadliest serial killer.

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child share how they met, why they write together, and who does what in their collaborative writing partnership. We discuss what they’ve learned from each other – including an amusing tale about writing dreaded sex scenes. We also explore character development, story research, and what’s next.

Meet Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Preston & Child)

Preston and Child’s Relic and The Cabinet of Curiosities were chosen by readers in a National Public Radio poll as being among the 100 greatest thrillers ever written, and Relic was made into a number‑one box office hit movie. They’ve collaborated together for 40 years and in addition to coauthoring the famed Pendergast series, their recent novels include The Cabinet of Dr. Leng, Diablo Mesa, Bloodless, The Scorpion’s Tail, and Crooked RiverDouglas Preston is also the author of the award-winning nonfiction book The Lost City of the Monkey God.  And Lincoln Child has published eight novels of his own, including bestsellers, Chrysalis and Deep Storm.

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