Dragon Teeth

Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton Michael Crichton the
number one New York Times best-selling author of Jurassic
Park returns to the world of palaeontology in this
recently discovered novel – a thrilling adventure set in
the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting. The
year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate
Americas western territories even as lawless gold-rush
towns begin to mark the landscape. Against this backdrop
two palaeontologists pillage the Wild West for dinosaur
fossils while deceiving and sabotaging each other in a
rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into
this treacherous territory plunges William Johnson a Yale
student with more privilege than sense. Determined to win
a bet against his archrival William has joined
world-renowned palaeontologist Othniel Charles Marsh on
his latest expedition. But Marsh becomes convinced that
William is spying for his nemesis Edwin Drinker Cope and
abandons him in Cheyenne Wyoming a locus of crime and
vice. Soon William joins forces with Cope and stumbles
upon a discovery of historic proportions. The struggle to
protect this extraordinary treasure however will test
Williams newfound resilience and pit him against some of
the Wests most dangerous and notorious characters….