Best-selling horror/thriller authors Lee Child and Douglas Preston have teamed for a new series that will follow investigator Gideon Crew, and Paramount has optioned the first novel, "Gideon’s Sword," for Michael Bay to produce through his company Bay Films, reports Variety.
While Grand Central Publishing isn’t releasing any details yet, they must be pretty juicy to be worth the reported seven-figures the two writers earned for their efforts.
I’m an avid fan of crime stories and mystery novels, preferring James Patterson’s Alex Cross series (which Paramout is familiar with having released "Kiss the Girls and "Along Came a Spider") and Jeffery Deaver’s Lincoln Rhyme series myself, but I’ve heard good things about Child, and plan to pick up "Gideon’s Sword" when it hits bookshelves in February.