| Thunderhead | |
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| Author(s) | Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Thriller, Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Grand Central Publishing |
| Publication date | 1998 |
| Media type | Paperback |
| Pages | 546 |
| ISBN | 0-446-60837-8 |
| OCLC Number | 44194046 |
| Preceded by | Riptide |
| Followed by | The Ice Limit |
Thunderhead (1998) is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child about a woman named Nora Kelly who finds a letter that was written sixteen years ago, but mysteriously sent to her only recently. The letter is written by her father, long believed dead. The letter talks about a lost city of gold that will make him famous and rich. This then leads Nora Kelly into leading an expedition into a harsh and remote corner of Utah's canyon country. There she searches for her father and his discovery and begins to unravel one of archeology's greatest mysteries.
The character of Nora Kelly is modeled on the amateur archaeologist and writer Nora Benjamin Kubie, grandmother of Lincoln Child.[1]
Bill Smithback, the journalist hired to chronicle the expedition, previously appeared in Preston and Child's Aloysius Pendergast series, and is revealed to have achieved some level of fame based on his novelization of the events depicted in Relic. Nora Kelly later appears as a supporting character in the Pendergast series, starting with The Cabinet of Curiosities in 2002.
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