About this book
Riptide (1998, 496 pages) -- the longest of Preston and Child's collaborations collected here -- is a treasure-hunt thriller centered on a booby-trapped pit on a remote island, the second of their standalone techno-thrillers before Pendergast.
Key facts about Riptide
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child wrote Riptide, a book on our list. It has been out since 1 January 1998. The book has 496 pages.
We list 1 edition of this book. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780446607179 to find the main one.
Douglas Preston has 46 books on our list. 42 of them belong to a series, while 4 stand alone. All 46 are out now. Other books by Douglas Preston on file include Pendergast: The Beginning (2026), Badlands (2025), Extinction (2024) and Angel of Vengeance (2024).
Earlier, Reliquary came out in 1997. After it came Thunderhead in 1999. Since then, our list has added 41 more books by Douglas Preston.
Douglas Preston has 5 series on file, such as Agent Pendergast, Wyman Ford and Gideon Crew. Those series sit on our thriller shelf. Meanwhile, Paradox is the latest published Douglas Preston book on file, from 1 April 2026.
About Douglas Preston
Douglas Preston is an American author best known for co-writing the Agent Pendergast series with Lincoln Child, following eccentric FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast through cases that combine forensic thriller plotting with gothic horror, secret history, and outsized set pieces. See every Douglas Preston book in order.
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780446607179