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Gideon's Sword
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
I come to the Preston & Child thriller factory through a side door - Preston's nonfiction Lost City of the Monkey God. I take a dim view of double-bylined novels (I have visions of James Patterson overseeing a sweatshop of toiling writers, like a Cuban cigar factory) but I can see where P&C must have a lot of fun cranking these things out. Gideon Crew is half nerd, half McGyver, and the whole book is a comic book without the pictures. But as Johnny Carson used to say, buy the premise, buy the joke. If you're willing to accept the preposterous premises, it's fun.