Gideon's corpse
By: Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Contributors: Child, Lincoln
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Grand Central Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780446564373; 9781455504176
Subjects: Nuclear terrorism; Fiction
Description: A top nuclear scientist turns homicidal, taking an innocent family hostage at gunpoint. Gideon Crew, a colleague of the scientist at Los Alamos, is called in to talk the man down. But the standoff ends in an explosion of violence. When the authorities discover the scientist's body is intensely radioactive, and that he had recently embraced Islamic extremism, all hell breaks loose.