Badlands
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child return with a thrilling tale in which archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, while investigating bizarre deaths in the desert, awaken an ancient evil more terrifying than anything they’ve faced before.
In the New Mexico badlands, the skeleton of a woman is found—and the case is assigned to FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. The victim walked into the desert, shedding clothes as she went, and died in agony of heatstroke and thirst. Two rare artifacts are found clutched in her bony hands—lightning stones used by the ancient Chaco people to summon the gods.
Is it suicide or… sacrifice?
Agent Swanson brings in archaeologist Nora Kelly to investigate. When a second body is found—exactly like the other—the two realize the case runs deeper than they imagined. As Corrie and Nora pursue their investigation into remote canyons, haunted ruins, and long-lost rituals, they find themselves confronting a dark power that, disturbed from its long slumber, threatens to exact an unspeakable price.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Dark magic and strange doings lead archaeologist Nora Kelly into a shiver-inducing mystery. After a corpse is discovered in the middle of the unforgiving New Mexico desert, FBI investigator Corrie Swanson calls upon her old archaeologist colleague Nora Kelly for help. To make things even more mysterious, the long-dead body was found with ultrarare Native American artifacts believed to be linked to the spiritual realm. Things get even stranger when a second, similar casualty turns up. Soon our intrepid duo is neck deep in all kinds of creepiness, including spooky cultists, ancient spirits invoked by long-gone tribes, and the general terrors of the desert. Best-selling thriller authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child are masterful at drawing us into both the majesty of the natural world surrounding Nora and Corrie and the cutting-edge technology that aids their investigation. Cynthia Farrell’s carefully measured delivery keeps you on edge as the suspense ratchets ever upward. Badlands is a wild ride that’ll scare you silly and rattle your brain right up until the last mysterious twist.
Customer Reviews
I like the book, because I like this series, but…
Terrible narrator, all the voices sound the same, this is my first time downloading a Preston Child audiobook and I’m going to listen to it because I paid for it, but I won’t be downloading one again unless they get a better narrator. The story is a five out of five. The narrator is one so I gave it three stars.