01713cam a2200325 4500 546846910 TxAuBib 20110413120000.0 110214s2011||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9780446573726 lg. print 0446573728 lg. print (OCoLC)701722330 TxAuBib Preston, Douglas J. Gideon's sword [large print] / Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. 1st ed. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2011. 474 p. (large print) ; 24 cm. Gideon Crew Series ; 1 Gideon Crew, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who is also a former art thief and master-of-disguise. He learns from his mother that his mathematician father—who had developed a flawed encryption—had actually warned his boss about the flaws, only to be murdered. Gideon exacts revenge from his father's murderer. As a result of this, he is recruited to be a freelance operative by an ultra-private security and engineering firm working for the Department of Homeland Security. His mission: to trace and retrieve plans for a mysterious super-weapon being brought to the United States of America by a Chinese scientist before the Chinese can recover them. 20110413. Crew, Gideon (Fictitious character) Fiction. Children of murder victims Fiction. Revenge Fiction. Large type books. Detective and mystery stories. Child, Lincoln. Gideon Crew Series ; 1. TXWKC