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According to Variety, Paramount has purchased the film rights to the book by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
The novel, which is scheduled for an early 2011 release, centres on investigator Gideon Crew, a character spun off from Preston and Child's Agent Pendergast book series.
The first Pendergast book was the basis for the 1997 movie The Relic.
Production details for the movie have yet to be announced.
