Tyrannosaur Canyon

A thief in broad daylight, scurries over and around the windy badlands of northern New Mexico, someone is following, he is a little concerned the geologist Marston Weathers, having just found his "treasure". The dreams of a lifetime at long last, becomes a reality not gold or gemstones, not even anc......more

What I wanted: What I got: That's what you get when you don't check up the book you're reading before you start. Anyway, the book wasn't that bad, it was just not what I wanted. I wanted a t-rex, perhaps a couple of t-rex, and people being hunted by t-rex, instead, I got t-rex...fossil and a lot of pe......more

Well, T-Rex, I think nature might have some other plans for you! As I recently finished up all currently available Preston & Child Pendergast books, I decided to move on to some of the solo efforts. It is obviously different; not bad, but just a little off what I expect. I can feel some of the same e......more

Frightening - because it COULD happen!! Only an extraordinarily deft master of suspense thrillers like Douglas Preston could pull together such wildly unrelated props, ideas and events and combine them into single related roller-coaster story line - an ex-CIA cryptologist who retired to a monastery a......more

Dinosaur and More Stem Weathers was a thin and weathered old man who had been exploring desserts everywhere and was currently in the Mesa de los Viejos or Mesa of the Ancients. He and his burrow were trying to get to the river when he discovered he was being followed. Stem tried to lose his pursuer,......more