By Douglas Preston
Grand Central Publishing · 2005 · 398pp · Book
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. A Tyrannosaurus rex fossil has been unearthed that contains an amazing clue to dinosaur extinction and a battle for it ensues between scientists and a shadowy government agency which is desperate to keep the explosive secret under wraps to prevent another mass extinction—this time of the human race.