Gideon Crew · Book 1

The Ice Limit

by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Published
1 January 2000
Pages
491
ISBN-13
9780446554015
Type
novel

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Cover of The Ice Limit

About this book

Gideon Crew begins with The Ice Limit, published in 2000, the Preston & Child standalone thriller that introduces EES founder Eli Glinn and the engineering firm that will later recruit Gideon himself -- optional backstory before Gideon's Sword, the first of the series to be followed by that book.

Its place in Gideon Crew

The Ice Limit is book 1 in the Gideon Crew series. It is followed by Gideon's Sword. See the full Gideon Crew reading order.

Gideon Crew is a brilliant, morally flexible problem-solver -- part con artist, part physicist -- recruited by the mysterious engineering firm Effective Engineering Solutions (EES) after a childhood tragedy leaves him with a taste for elaborate, high-stakes heists and impossible retrievals. When Gideon is diagnosed with a fatal brain condition partway through the series, Preston and Child use his shortened timeline to raise the stakes on every job that follows. The series traces its roots to EES founder Eli…

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