

It is determined that the cause of this was a botched attempt at assembling a dirty bomb. During a search of his apartment, it is discovered that he is highly radioactive. In an event similar to the death of Gideon's father, Chalker is gunned down. Chalker is spouting ravings that he has been irradiated by some conspiracy. Eli Glinn does not seem displeased by Gideon's previous actions, and recruits Gideon to help calm down a colleague of Gideon's at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Reed Chalker, who has gone insane and has taken a family hostage.

The book begins immediately after the conclusion of Gideon's Sword. The plot focuses on a nuclear scare, the federal reaction, and Gideon's attempts to unravel the mystery. The book centers around Gideon Crew and is a sequel to Gideon's Sword. The book was released on January 10, 2012, by Grand Central Publishing. Although a majority of the files consist of between two to four pages, a few contain up to four linear inches of material.Gideon's Corpse is a thriller novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Materials continue to be added to these files. Additional material consists of newspaper clippings, journal articles, change of command/retirement brochures, and biographies printed from the websites of the Navy Chief of Information and Arlington National Cemetery. Many of the files consist of individual officer biographies produced during the 1950s through the 1970s by the Navy Office of Information, Internal Relations Division the Navy Office of Information, Biographies Branch and the Division of Naval Records and History (OP 29). Also see Navy Personnel: A Research Guide. For biographical information from the late 18th through the early 20th centuries, see the Navy Department Library's ZB files and Officers of the Continental and U.S.

Navy officers who served during the Second World War and the Cold War-era, though their contents range from the Interwar period (1919-1939) through the War on Terrorism.

The files are particularly noted for biographical coverage of senior U.S. These files have been accumulated since the early 20th century by the Navy Department Library to provide historical information to US Navy personnel and other researchers, both official and unofficial. They are a combination of files collected by the Library and a ready reference collection of duplicate flag officer files formerly housed in the Archives Branch of the Naval History and Heritage Command. The Modern Biographical Files are located in the Navy Department Library's Rare Book Room.
