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A moon rock missing for thirty years... Five buckets of blood-soaked sand found in a New Mexico canyon... A scientist with ambition enough to kill... A monk who will redeem the world... A dark agency with a deadly mission... The greatest scientific discovery of all time... What fire bolt from... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Tom Broadbent: Innocent bystander given a notebook by a man dying in the desert. He is asked to find the dying man's daughter.
- Sally Broadbent: Tom's wife
- Willer: Detective
- Wyman Ford: Former cryptologist and CIA agent.
- Dr. Iain Corvus: Paleontologist
- Marston Weathers: Father of Robbie, first to speculate about this dinosaur
- Robbie Weathers: Daughter of Marston Weathers
- Weed Maddox: Dr. Corvus' henchman
- Hernandez: Police
- T. Rex: dinosaur of the late Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago
- Hitt: Soldier
- Calhoun: Forensics
- Melodie Crookshank: mineralogist working at the Museum of Natural History
- Eugene Cernan: Apollo 17 astronaut
- Jack Schmitt: Apollo 17 astronaut
- Gowicki: Soldier
- Shane McBride: Tom's assistant
- Wheatley: Police
- Mr. Kim: fake persona of a man Tom says he's working for
- Julie: Add a description of this character.
- Mr. Beezon
- Muzinsky
First Sentence edit
STEM WEATHERS SCRAMBLED to the top of the Mesa de los Viejos, tied his burro to a dead juniper, and settled himself down on a dusty boulder.
Table of Contents edit
PROLOGUE
PART ONE
THE MAZE
Chapters 1 - 24
PART TWO
CHICXULUB
Chapters 1 - 19
PART THREE
PERDIZ CREEK
Chapters 1 - 25
PART FOUR
DEVIL"S GRAVEYARD
Chapters 1 - 9
PART FIVE
THE VENUS PARTICLE
Chapters 1 - 13
PART SIX
THE TAIL OF THE DEVIL
Chapters 1 - 7
EPILOGUE
JORDANA DEL MUERTO
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 3 in Wyman Ford. (standard series)
Followed by Blasphemy.
This is book 2 of 2 in Tom Broadbent. (standard series)
Preceded by The Codex.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Douglas Preston (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Forge
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 0765311046
Page Count: 368
Publisher: Forge
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 0765311046
Page Count: 368
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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