Gideon's Sword

By: Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Narrated by: John Glover

Introducing Gideon Crew: trickster, prodigy, master thief....

At 12, Gideon Crew witnessed his father, a world-class mathematician, accused of treason and gunned down.

At 24, summoned to his dying mother's bedside, Gideon learned the truth: His father was framed and deliberately slaughtered. With her last breath, she begged her son to avenge him.

Now, with a new purpose in his life, Gideon crafts a one-time mission of vengeance, aimed at the perpetrator of his father's destruction. His plan is meticulous, spectacular, and successful.

But from the shadows, someone is watching. A very powerful someone, who is impressed by Gideon's special skills. Someone who has need of just such a renegade.

For Gideon, this operation may be only the beginning....

©2011 Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child (P)2011 Hachette Audio

Love these authors!

If you love suspense and action, you'll love this book. Great protagonist and, of course, you cant go wrong with the addition of Eli Glinn.

horrible narrator

the story isn't the best Douglas Preston. but it's worth reading I'd say. but DO NOT buy this version. this narrator drives me crazy. I knew it was going to be bad when he read 1911 as one nine one one.

A great title, a less than great listen

When I buy a book as a recommendation from audible I know it is at best a crap shoot. Sometimes I am impressed and sometimes not. This is a not. There is probably a good story in there somewhere but it's not in this book. I found the characters to be one dimensional and the story predictable. Every stunt that Gideon undertakes to get the the "truth" works out perfectly (successfully). But by the end it feels a little too fictionalized.
I would pass on this one.

One of their best books

I have read about 7 novels by Preston and Child, and I have to vehemently disagree with some of the negative reviews I have read of this book. While some reviewers have said "this feels like a movie" in a pejorative way, to me that is a strong point. It feels like a movie: the characters are very clear, they are well developed in lean, crisp strokes, the pace is fast, and the action strong. The story does a great job developing the characters through action, while pushing the story forward without slowing down much. A couple of characters from past books pop up here, and make brief reference to past events, and these said characters have matured and evolved just as you'd expect them to (referring to Eli Glinn and his buddy Garza from "Ice Limit." Having just read that one as well I was expecting Glinn to exert more control in this one). The set pieces are interesting and just like all of their stories, Gideon's Sword does have a some intriguing ideas in it. The protagonist is much more well developed than some of the previous ones I read in other books and the bad guy is fun. Gideon is a great character and it would be fun to see him in another story. As I stated at the beginning of this review, this is my 7th book by these guys and what it feels like is that the things they were doing in earlier books have sort of crystallized in this one, in a story that moves fast and gets better as it goes, and makes some of the earlier ones look like practice.

A great book!

A nice departure for Preston & Child. I liked the book, it was tight and compelling. The follow-up was very disappointing!

After reading the Pendergast series I was expecting a tighter story line.

Still good but I was expecting more from this power house writing team. Characters were well developed.

Not really sure...

Of what I thought, I love the two authors very much. But something seems to be missing??? The excitement is there and then Gideon seems to disappear and someone else enters...more when I read book 2.

They are doing it again!

Gideon Crewe has still to mature,b but the the same cadence,that makes Lincoln and Child such amazing story tellers ,held me spell bound

A new adventure to ride

Would you listen to Gideon's Sword again? Why?

Maybe, in a few years. A book has to really stick with me to read again and I won't know that for awhile.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Gideon's Sword?

It would be a spoiler

Which character – as performed by John Glover – was your favorite?

Why Gideon of course

If you could rename Gideon's Sword, what would you call it?

Bucket list #1

Any additional comments?

This looks like another great ride to go on with Preston & Child

Very entertaining

Personally, I like the Pendergast series a little more, but this was a great opener for the Gideon Crew series.

Only issue I had with the performance is that the guy clearly isn’t very good with accents. He just really couldn’t deliver when the character required it. Other than that it was good though.