5237 15550e7d-775a-4307-b5df-042139c05614 Tyrannosaur Canyon Douglas Preston calibre (0.9.21) [http://calibre-ebook.com] 2005-08-11T05:00:00+00:00 <div><p>A moon rock missing for thirty years...<br>Five buckets of blood-soaked sand found in a New Mexico canyon...<br>A scientist with ambition enough to kill...<br>A monk who will redeem the world...<br>A dark agency with a deadly mission...<br>The greatest scientific discovery of all time...<br>What fire bolt from the galactic dark shattered the Earth eons ago, and now hides in that remote cleft in the southwest U.S. known as . . . <br>Tyrannosaur Canyon? <br>The stunning new masterwork from the acclaimed best-selling author, recently hailed by<em> Publishers Weekly</em> as "better than Crichton."<br></p><h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p><strong>About the Author</strong></p><p>DOUGLAS PRESTON has worked for the American Museum of Natural History as well as with his frequent collaborator, Lincoln Child. He has authored such bestselling thrillers as <em>Brimstone</em>, <em>The Cabinet of Curiosities</em>, and <em>Relic</em>. His latest solo novel is <em>The Codex</em>.</p><p><strong>Amazon.com Exclusive Content</strong></p><p><strong>Rex-ommended Reading</strong> <br>You won't need to do any research before reading Douglas Preston's exciting novel <em>Tyrannosaur Canyon</em>, but it's easy to see he did plenty. Check out his list of recommended reading to learn more about the mighty T. Rex and the fascinating world of dinosaurs in general.</p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>At the start of this improbable thriller from bestseller Preston (<em>The Codex</em>), innocent bystander Tom Broadbent is riding his horse through a New Mexico canyon when he comes upon prospector Stem Weathers, who's just been shot. Before Weather dies, he gives Tom a notebook filled with mysterious numbers, asking him to pass it on to his daughter. Taking this assignment to heart, Tom puts himself and his wife at ever greater, more pointless risk as he tries to deliver the notebook. Soon the Broadbents find themselves the target of the prospector's assassin—a jailbird hired by an evil British paleontologist seeking the perfectly preserved remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex—as well as a rogue government operative who's trying, with a commandeered army squad, to kill almost everyone in the book. Lively yet ridiculous, the narrative loses all plausibility as it becomes clear that the characters do what they do solely in order to keep the plot churning to its conclusion. The recent real-life discovery of a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil containing soft tissue makes this particularly timely. <br>Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p></div> Macmillan B000O76NN2 0765349655 g4AO32AKV9cC 0765311046 w/tyrannosaur-canyon-douglas-preston/1100356039 eng Fiction Thrillers