The Lost Tomb

An acclaimed novelist of murder mysteries, Preston has an unerring sense of suspense, of how to hold the reader in his grip. Yet in these reported pieces, he is also scrupulous and rigorous about the facts. Propelled by his own compulsive curiosity, he follows one murky trail after another, which lead him from police interrogation rooms to pits of dinosaur bones, from DNA laboratories to Egyptian tombs ... Preston is a recoverer of what is unknown: answers, justice, fragments of history.