DOUGLAS PRESTON has published forty books of both nonfiction and fiction, of which thirty one have been New York Times bestsellers, a half-dozen reaching the #1 position. He is the co-author, with Lincoln Child, of the Pendergast series of thrillers. He also writes nonfiction pieces for The New Yorker magazine. He worked as an editor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. He is president emeritus of the Authors Guild and serves on the Advisory Board of the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe.

LINCOLN CHILD is the author of Utopia and Death Match, as well as a number of New York Times bestselling thrillers with Douglas Preston. He lives with his wife and daughter in Morristown, New Jersey.

"Far above Crichton's Jurassic Park." --Booklist on Relic

"What might happen if a creature from Jurassic Park came to New York City." --The Chicago Tribune on Relic

"Wildly cool...Thrill hounds couldn't ask for a creepier environment...a thriller staged in the world's scariest building, with no room for the squeamish." --Kirkus Reviews on Relic

"Jaws takes Manhattan." --San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle on Relic

"A thriller that arrives with the kinetic energy of a meteor smacking the earth. " --Tampa Tribune and Times on Relic

"A high-concept, high-energy thriller . . . Builds to a superbly exciting climax, and then offers a final twist to boot." --Publishers Weekly on Relic