Harper
November 2017
On Sale: November 7, 2017
Featuring: Edwin Drinker Cope; William Johnson
352 pages ISBN: 0062473360 EAN: 9780062473363 Kindle: B01JK5SU2U Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
The year is 1876. 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.
Into this treacherous territory plunges William Johnson, a
student who has joined world-renowned paleontologist
Othniel Charles Marsh on his latest expedition. 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.
William joins forces with Cope and soon stumbles upon a
discovery of historic proportions. With this extraordinary
treasure, however, comes exceptional danger, and Johnson’s
newfound resilience will be sorely tested...