# Badlands

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- Book: [Badlands](https://www.bookquiver.com/douglas-preston/badlands) ([Badlands.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/douglas-preston/badlands.md))
- Authors: [Douglas Preston](https://www.bookquiver.com/douglas-preston), [Lincoln Child](https://www.bookquiver.com/lincoln-child)
- Publisher: Head of Zeus
- ISBN: 978-10-3591-568-2
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2026-03-12
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the New Mexico desert badlands, a woman's skeleton is found with two rare artefacts clutched in her hands: lightning stones used by the ancient Chaco people to summon the gods. Was it suicide... or sacrifice? FBI Special Agent Corrie Swanson brings in archaeologist Nora Kelly to investigate. When a second body is found in identical circumstances, they realise the case runs deeper than they imagined. As Corrie and Nora pursue their investigation into remote canyons, haunted ruins, and long-lost rituals, they find themselves confronting a dark power that, disturbed from its long slumber, threatens to exact an unspeakable price.