Not since Jurassic Park has digging up the past been so dangerous The legendary #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park returns to the world of paleontology in this recently discovered novel. -- USA Today.
Crichton delivers.
With this extraordinary treasure, however, comes exceptional danger, and Johnson\'s newfound resilience will be sorely tested...
William joins forces with Cope and soon stumbles upon a discovery of historic proportions.
But when Marsh becomes convinced that William is spying for his nemesis, Edwin Drinker Cope, he abandons him in Cheyenne, Wyoming, a locus of crime and vice.
Into this treacherous territory plunges William Johnson, a student who has joined world-renowned paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh on his latest expedition.
Warring Indian tribes still populate America\'s western territories, even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape, and two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils while surveilling, deceiving, and sabotaging each other.
The year is 1876. . . .
Not since Jurassic Park has digging up the past been so dangerous The legendary #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park returns to the world of paleontology in this recently discovered novel