TY - BOOK AU - Preston,Douglas J. AU - Child,Lincoln TI - The pharaoh key T2 - Gideon Crew SN - 9781788547727 PY - 2018/// CY - New York PB - Grand Central Publishing KW - Antiquities KW - Fiction KW - Missing persons KW - Crew, Gideon (Fictitious character) KW - Adventure stories KW - Suspense fiction N2 - Gideon Crew; brilliant scientist, master thief, intrepid adventurer, is shocked when his former employer, Eli Glinn, vanishes without a trace, and Glinn's high-tech lab Effective Engineering Solutions shuts down seemingly overnight. Fresh off a diagnosis that gives him only months to live, Crew is contacted by one of his former coworkers at EES, Manuel Garza, who has a bead on one final treasure hinted at in EES's final case, the long-awaited translation of a centuries-old stone tablet of a previously undiscovered civilization: The Phaistos Disc. What lies at the end of the trail will either save Gideon's life, or bring it to a sudden, shocking close. Crew once again faces incredible odds, but as Gideon has proved again and again, there's no such thing as too great a risk when you're living on borrowed time ER -