The Dinosaur Hunter, Homer Hickam
The Dinosaur Hunter, Homer Hickam
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The Dinosaur Hunter
A Novel

Author: Homer Hickam

Narrator: Michael Kramer

Unabridged: 10 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/09/2010

Categories: Fiction, Western


Synopsis

Life on the ranchlands of Montana comes with more than its share of trouble. The unique people who live and work on this untamed stretch of today's American West expect it—and some of them even enjoy it. One of them is Mike Wire, a former homicide detective who once worked the decadent hills and valleys of Hollywood. Having enough of the violence of the big city, Mike has retreated to a far corner of civilization to spend his days running the Square C Ranch and pining for Jeanette Coulter, its spirited and iron-fisted owner.

But Mike is soon to learn terrible things can happen beneath Montana's big skies, too. The badlands are home to more than just horses, cattle, cowboys, and laid-back rattlesnakes. Just beneath the surface are the bones of a dinosaur family that could make a fortune for whoever gets to them first. When a paleontologist and his attractive young assistants arrive at the Square C to dig, Mike senses trouble is clinging to them like Montana mud. Once discovered, those bones won't stay buried, and not everyone hunting for them is doing it in the interest of science.

When a murderer begins to stalk the dinosaur hunting grounds, Mike has to combine the lessons he learned in Los Angeles with those of the Montana prairie to protect the people and the land he has come to love.

About Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam is the author of many books, including the acclaimed memoir Rocket Boys that was adapted into the film October Sky. His awards for writing are many and include the University of Alabama's Clarence Cason Award and Shepherd University's Appalachian Heritage Author's Award. He was raised in the coalfields of West Virginia and graduated from Virginia Tech. He is also a Vietnam veteran, a scuba instructor, a retired NASA engineer, an amateur paleontologist who has discovered numerous dinosaurs, serves on the boards of the United States Space & Rocket Center (Space Camp) and the Museum of the Rockies, and was appointed in 2019 as an advisor to the National Space Council. He also volunteers for feral cat rescue programs.

Homer and his wife share their time between homes in Alabama and the U.S. Virgin Islands.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew on January 16, 2011

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Goodreads review by Wayland on January 01, 2019

Sometimes, all you really need for a great read is a good main character. This book has that and a great story wrapped around him. I was very pleasantly surprised by the way all this unfolded. Mike is a former LAPD homicide detective, career cut short by a bad guy's bullet years ago. Eventually he e......more

Goodreads review by Ro on February 21, 2013

Ignoring the almost universally applicable adage of 'don't judge a book by its cover', I picked this up out of the library basically hoping for a novelisation of Turok. In that respect I was disappointed, as in many others. The story follows Mike Wire, an ex-LAPD cop moonlighting as a farmhand and sub......more

Goodreads review by Glen on November 19, 2017

A fairly good mystery based in the hinterlands of Montana. A former cop is playing cowboy in Montana working for a female rancher. They find valuable fossils on the ranch land, and murders start. A little more violent than most cozies. Not bad, even if the detective guy talks too much.......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on May 13, 2014

The Dinosaur Hunter By Homer Hickam I always think of Homer Hickam as a writer for men. I enjoyed The Ambassador’s Son, an adventure tale set on a Pacific island in World War II. The main characters were nearly all men in that book. The Dinosaur Hunter is set in Montana, and the narrator is a former C......more