' Not as good as the Pendergast series but still worth the read. Good book, but the middle kindof dragged on and on. They could have cut out part of the middle and would have been fine. But for some reason, this book took me sooooo long to finish. It had all the right ingredients: anasazi, southwest etc. May not be elite reading, but this is the kind of genre I really enjoy. Suspense - will keep you reading deep into the night.

As good/thrilling as Child/Preston's Pendergast series. Nora and a team of archaelogists head off and battle witches protecting the site from discovery. ' Nora Green receives a 16-year old letter from her deceased father about the existence of a lost Indian tribe city hidden in a wild, remote canyon.

I would definitely read another novel by these authors. I've never been to the Southwest but after reading this, I kinda feel like I visited a small part of it.

' An excellent mingling of fact and fiction with a liberal sprinkling of freaky terror. I found the information regarding Native American ruins and the Anasazi fasinating! ' - Cheer, ' I really liked this book.Preston/Child always write about really interesting topics. ' This book involves a character from 'Relic' and is actually a prequel to 'Relic'. It did have a bit of swearing, but not as much as some of his other books. ' I liked this book because it was set in a place that I am familiar with. ' This was another solid book by Preston and Child.

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Love the story and love the feelings it made me remember. I have felt the ancient ones raise the hairs on my neck. I have felt the majesty and mystery of those places. I have been to many of the locations this book takes place around. Little is know of the Anasazi but their ruins dot the countryside. The oldest inhabitaed town in the United States is near where this book takes place. The landscape of the Southwest is home and unlike any other place on earth.

'Thunderhead by Preston & Child covers some of my favorite interests. For hidden in the shadows of the sunbaked cliffs are untold treasures, the solution to the greatest riddle of American archaeology - and implacable, suffocating death.'-BOOK JACKET. In the stark labyrinth of canyons and slickrock desert she will find the answer to both her greatest hopes and her deepest nightmare. 'Convinced that her father truly had found Quivira, Nora puts together an expedition and takes a team up Lake Powell to the mouth of Serpentine Canyon. Written by her father, who vanished sixteen years ago in the remote desert, the letter reveals the location of a legendary site hidden in the red rock canyon country of southern Utah: Quivira, the Anasazi Indians' wondrous lost city of gold.-BOOK JACKET. Archaeologist Nora Kelly is adrift in her career and her personal life when a violent, inexplicable incident leaves her in possession of a mysterious letter.

Thunderhead by Douglas Preston