Dragon Teeth: A Novel by Michael Crichton

The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America’s western territories while lawless gold-rush cities start to mark the landscape. In a good deal of the united states of America, it’s miles still unlawful to espouse evolution.

Against this backdrop monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, looking for dinosaur fossils, at the same time as surveilling, deceiving, and sabotaging each other in a competition to emerge called the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous territory plunges the boastful and entitled William Johnson, a Yale scholar with greater privilege than sense.

Determined to live on a summertime season in the west to win a wager in opposition to his arch-rival, William has joined world-renowned paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh on his present-day expedition. But while the paranoid and secretive Marsh turns into satisfied that William is spying for his nemesis, Edwin Drinker Cope, he abandons him in Cheyenne, Wyoming, a locus of crime and vice.

William is pressured to sign up for forces with Cope and shortly stumbles upon a discovery of ancient proportions. With this superb treasure, however, comes amazing danger, and William’s newfound resilience could be examined in his war to defend his cache, which puts him in opposition to a number of the West’s maximum infamous characters.

A page-turner that attracts on each meticulously researched record and an exuberant imagination, Dragon Teeth is primarily based totally on the competition among real-lifestyles paleontologists Cope and Marsh; in William Johnson readers will locate an inspiring hero handiest Michael Crichton may want to have imagined. Perfectly paced and brilliantly plotted, this pretty prevailing journey is destined to come to be any other Crichton classic.