by Douglas Preston · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401335594
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«El códice maya» is the mystery and adventure novel by Douglas Preston, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (448 pages, in Spanish).
Maxwell Broadbent, a former adventurer, disappears along with his art collection valued at five hundred million dollars. His three sons receive a video with a challenge: the inheritance will be theirs if they find it. The search in the Mayan jungle becomes complicated because the treasure includes a codex with supposed pharmacological secrets for which someone is willing to do anything.
Original title: The Codex, originally published in 2003; this Spanish edition is the fourth.
Recommended for readers of adventure and mystery thrillers, with treasure hunting and a Mayan jungle setting.
Douglas Jerome Preston is an American journalist and author. Although he is best known for his thrillers in collaboration with Lincoln Child, he has also written six solo novels, including the Wyman Ford series and a novel titled Jennie, which was made into a movie by Disney called The Jennie Project. Preston has authored a half-dozen nonfiction books on science and exploration and writes occasionally for The New Yorker, Smithsonian, and other magazines.
