There are authors capable of becoming a genre in themselves. The one about the already deceased Michael chrichton it was the scientific fantasy of its own label. In an exquisite communion between science and adventure or thriller, this author always dazzled millions of readers avid for his proposals full of scientific sophistication projected from a very recognizable environment, with that final result disturbing from the close, from the real world .
On this occasion, the best Crichton is recovered, the one who combines the historical with the scientific assumption, in a combination of brilliant documentation on which a plot of frenetic rhythm is established between the XNUMXth century and the present.
The enigmatic beginning of the novel, dating back to 1876, in the days when the American West was a conflictive terrain between the colonizers and the native Indians, provides that taste, that foundation that links events of then and now, as a pair of interconnected planes.
In those remote days the author introduces us to a team of paleontologists who are looking for their particular gold in the American West. They are sure that in this hostile terrain they can find remains of great magnitude from the time of the dinosaurs. What is happening with them will happen at the same time as the present.
And today we are involved in a new expedition that tries to repeat the steps of remote paleontologists. Charles Marsh is that willful, convinced and passionate guy. You just need the capital to pay for your research. And you can't always count on patrons dedicated to the cause. When William Johnson, a young potentate, decides to join Charles's team, the latter cannot imagine the trouble it will cause him later ...
In that typical dichotomy between good and evil, between investigators and those who only seek glory, the plot advances on facts extracted from reality.
The American West as a place full of mysteries. The vast expanses as scenarios where telluric forces converge that confront past and present, with signs and clues towards a great discovery, but also with twists and fierce struggles that will threaten the lives of the protagonists and that also threaten to destabilize the world as we know it. .
You can now buy the novel Dragon Teeth, the new posthumous book by Michael Chrichton, with a discount for access from this blog, here: