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Preview — Tyrannosaur Canyon by Douglas Preston. Tyrannosaur Canyon Wyman Ford 1 3. A stunning new archaeological thriller by the New York Times bestselling co-author of Brimstone and Relic. 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 the galactic dark shattered the Earth eons ago, and now hides in that remote cleft in the southwest U.
Tyrannosaur Canyon is a stunning novel from acclaimed bestselling author Douglas Preston, hailed by Publishers Weekly as "better than Crichton.
Paperback , pages. Published August 29th by Forge Books first published August 11th New Mexico United States. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Tyrannosaur Canyon , please sign up. The description says "better than Crichton," I am sure that I would not like this book as much as Jurassic Park.
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One reason I love Crichton's books is the scientific explanations and the mathematics involved in his books are very realistic. So to anybody who has read both this book and any similar novel of Michael Crichton's: Is this book as explanatory about the science as Crichton's books? Which author did better? Steve Bolin Crichton's book is on a completely different theme. There is no recreation of living dinosaurs here. If anything, there is a science-based similarity …more Crichton's book is on a completely different theme.
If anything, there is a science-based similarity to Andromeda Strain but the emphasis of the book is really a murder mystery with the science thrown in around it. See 2 questions about Tyrannosaur Canyon…. Lists with This Book. Mar 21, Henry Avila rated it really liked it. A thief in broad daylight, scurries over and around the windy badlands of northern New Mexico, someone is following, he is a little concerned the geologist Marston Weathers, having just found his "treasure".
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The dreams of a lifetime at long last, becomes a reality not gold or gemstones, not even ancient coins. Weathers is the top dinosaur hunter in the nation, but lacks honesty some would say, a stickler for obeying every rule he doesn't claim to be, that the law demands. A free man, until c A thief in broad daylight, scurries over and around the windy badlands of northern New Mexico, someone is following, he is a little concerned the geologist Marston Weathers, having just found his "treasure". A free man, until caught this is government land after all, everything belongs to them Tom Broadbent the local veterinarian, likes riding his horse in this wild territory, he loves animals, people that's another story.
Arriving at the bloody scene, a badly wounded Mr. Weathers received a couple of bullets to the back, tells the vet to give his coded notebook to his estranged daughter, Roberta,"Robbie" and a promise to keep the secret from everyone else, how can he refuse? Looking at the anguish in the dying face, expiring with a grotesque half - smile. Weathers has discovered the most complete Tyrannosaur Rex fossil ever, so lifelike it chills the spine, worth maybe million dollars on the black market.
However the killer is descending from the mesa above , no time to dawdle Tom, he goes for help the police are suspicious, his wife Sally, says to give the notebook to them, but he will keep his word to the unknown dead man , still how? It will cost them both dearly, the murderer is very clever, hiding the body and burro from the police , nothing is found in the canyon of where the crime occurred, except a mass of blood in a hole in the sand An ex-con, Jimson Maddox , working for a seemingly respectable man from a museum in New York, is the killer, he would do anything for his benefactor, who got him out of prison in California.
A different kind of human Wyman Ford, ex- C. He was the intended victim but three years later the almost monk is restless, he likes roaming the waterless land going for days alone, seeing the mesas, canyons and the relentless Sun beating down on the hot, lonely deserts, that will kill the careless or people who lose their way, no mistakes are permitted in this exotic and fetching place. Tom travels to see Mr. Ford, he was a codebreaker in his previous occupation, the reluctant Wyman is bored, needs the excitement of his former life. It will naturally cause big trouble too, the criminal will stop at nothing to get the notebook, that reveals where the dinosaur is located and the indignant police are watching also, any excuse to lock up the closed mouth of the very uncooperative, Mr.
Superior tale, for those who like action and adventure, with a touch of suspense but not for some View all 10 comments. That's what you get when you don't check up the book you're reading before you start. Anyway, the book wasn't that bad, it was just not what I wanted. I wanted a t-rex, perhaps a couple of t-rex, and people being hunted by t-rex, instead, I got t-rex I had a bit of trouble getting into the story of Tyrannosaur Canyon and Wyman Ford isn't really working for me. I prefer his agent Pendergast books with Lincoln Child. The part What I wanted: The part of the book I liked the best was "the life of the T-rex" when Preston wrote about her life 65 million years ago.
So in a way, I actually liked the t-rex best of all the "characters" in the book Aug 14, Montzalee Wittmann rated it really liked it.
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It is fast paced and exciting. I enjoyed it on many levels. I loved exciting stories of archaeological finds, stories that puzzle, those that might involve the government, and a new scientific find. Murder, mayhem, and suspense is the bonus! Feb 09, Glen rated it liked it Shelves: There's a lot going on in a remote area of New Mexico. Somebody shoots an old prospector and hides the body. The old prospector had a map that leads to Somebody is stalking a woman. There's a mysterious alphabet soup agency poking around. Lots of drama, for what I felt wasn't a lot of payoff.
Jan 20, Daniel rated it really liked it. After finishing Impact , I was intrigued enough to try another book by Douglas Preston. I selected Tyrannosaur Canyon on the basis of the reviews on Goodreads. I felt Tyannosaur Canyon was a much better book -- even though it was written before Impact. I loved the irony of the plaque in Beezon's office of a minnow in the belly of a fossilized fish, itself in the belly of an even larger fossilized fish.
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It cleverly foretold of predators chasing victims in the plot only to become the victim of After finishing Impact , I was intrigued enough to try another book by Douglas Preston. It cleverly foretold of predators chasing victims in the plot only to become the victim of even larger predators. As before, I believe Douglas Preston's writing style is excellent and his pace keeps the reader completely absorbed in the story.
His descriptions of characters, scenes and actions portray vivid images yet do not bog down the story. I liked many of the characters including Tom Broadbent and his wife, Sally. I particularly enjoyed the character of Wyman Ford trying and failing to escape his demons by entering a monestary.
The villains were dramatically nasty and the poor police detective seemed to always be behind the curve in his chase. I also liked the genre of what I call "real world" science fiction. No little green men but instead plausible, scientific extensions of our current world. I can easily recommend this book View all 3 comments. Mar 06, Craig rated it it was ok Shelves: You know it's a bad sign when you keep flipping to the end of the book to see how much further you have to slog 'til the end.
I consider myself a fan of the Lincoln-Child LC books. At the time of this writing I've read seven Pendergast books back-to-back earlier this year. Although I wouldn't categorize them as tomes of High Literature I do find them well-written especially for the thriller genre , suspenseful, interesting, and almost always entertaining. Having blazed through those seven co- You know it's a bad sign when you keep flipping to the end of the book to see how much further you have to slog 'til the end.
Having blazed through those seven co-authored books, I wanted to try out each author "on their own" in some of their solo books to see how they fared.
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Judging solely from this slapdash novel I'd say that the two authors together are far greater than the sum of their parts. I suspect that working together sets up some friendly competition resulting in more complex novels, propelling their stories to greater heights. Here are a few that have been dragged out of previous books which Douglas Preston co-authored. The feisty, under appreciated -- but highly intelligent -- female museum worker. The sleazy, uptight, bug-up-his-butt museum director. The dark chase in the deserted museum basement. You know the one: See LC's "Dance of Death" , I believe, and a few others if I'm not mistaken -- reading so many Pendergast series books back-to-back earlier this year has caused some of them to blur together.
Unmistakable shades of Pendergast in the government uber-agent who appreciates the finer things in life, has a superhuman past and a wife who was murdered, and, as the story begins, is holed up in a remote monastery. The dark chase through the tunnels of an abandoned mine see the LC book "White Fire".
What's this fixation Douglas Preston has with mines? The dizzying number of time the word "astonished" or astonishes and astonishing is used. Well, mystery solved, I guess: Is it really believable to think that anyone would be so stubborn as the character Tom is about the "promise from a dying man" -- even as the reasons keep piling up why he should break that promise? I suppose this was needed so that the story and all its implausibilities could begin stacking up.
How is it that Wyman Ford happens to be a few minutes' drive away, is an expert code breaker, and happens to be in a vulnerable state of mind to be drawn into action? The improbable coincidence of this near-complete T-Rex's remains being found in Tyrannosaur Canyon is actually pointed out by a character in the book as in, "wouldn't that be a kicker if it ended up being found there?
We are given an ex-con caricature of a man with the "world's most biologically accurate T-Rex tattoo" who refers to every guy as a "son of a bitch" and every woman as a "bitch". World's most biologically accurate Why doesn't anyone clear that damn sticky blood smear off the dead prospector's notebook? Minor gripe here but can someone explain to me why Weeder buys a coffee and a slice of pizza at the convenience store, pays with exact change, then goes outside to dump the coffee and throw the pizza onto a cactus 7.
Hackneyed action sequences abound like the protagonist jumping out of a flaming truck before it flies off the road to explode in a canyon and another scene where one of our bad guys rises from the flames of a crashed chopper to fire away at the good guys before falling over dead. Why does Weeder keep Sally alive in the cave when he is obviously going to kill her? She doesn't end up serving as bait to Tom or any other purpose and the fact that she is chained to a wall to be "Dealt With Later" is obviously just a ham handed plot device to try to introduce some kind of tension to the book.
The plot was paint-by-numbers, the characters shallow, and the very brief 2 or 3 page chapters that give the book a "movie" feel and their brevity never really allowed me to immerse into any extended passages of the book. Every chapter felt almost like it ended needing a commercial break. I toss the book aside and wait patiently for Blue Labyrinth later this year. Though we'll still have to dodge more than a few abuses of the word "astonishing", it's a fair bet that the result of Lincoln and Child joining heads will result in something better than this. Jan 06, Tanja Berg rated it did not like it Shelves: I picked this book up expecting to be entertained.
I'm perfectly able to suspend disbelief if they story is good enough. Oh my was I disappointed. This book was about as interesting as watching paint dry. This author is - according to the blurb " I've read most of Cricthons books and although not all of them were to my liking, not one of them came close to this in sheer stupidity. If you hate something you're supposed to be speci I picked this book up expecting to be entertained. If you hate something you're supposed to be specific.
I'll give it a shot. I still feel mildly sick that I bothered to finish it. Anyway, a man who has discovered something big, something he calls "a treasure" is murdered on a visit to it. A vet living nearby hears it and goes to explore. He finds the man, badly wounded, hears his dying words and is entrusted a notebook that he must give to the dying man's daughter.
So far so good. The "treasure" turns out to be an extraordinarily well-preserved t-rex fossil. Complete with inner organs and feathers. I mean, you hear about the odd mammoth mummy turning up in the tundra in a pristine state, but a FOSSIL including skin and organs? It is not the same thing at all. Sure, soft organs are sometimes "imprinted" in the rock, but that's not what the case was in this book.
The follies do not end here, but I shall not reveal "the twist". It does not redeem the book in anyway regardless and does not deserve mentioning. So yes, there are numerous scientific cock-ups that even the most average lay person can detect. This could have been forgiven if the characters had been interesting, but they are not in the least.
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It is Tom, the vet and his wife Sally. The latter gest hunted down while Tom is away, by a man who wants the notebook. There is a student who examines a sample from the fossil for the biggest crook in the book. There's the former CIA agent, now a monk, who cracks the code in the notebook. None of them are particularly intersting or entartaining, I did not give a hoot as to what happened to any of them.
I must finish this review now, because the more I think about the content of this book, the more annoyed I get at having wasted my time on it. Jan 16, Komal rated it it was ok Shelves: Fffffffffffffff- I don't know. There was something essential missing that should've been part of such an action-incorporated, part science-fiction thriller. Wish I could pinpoint it out but I wouldn't want to waste more thoughts on this. Or maybe just missing a live T-Rex. There were some pleasant surprises throughout with elements of a treasure hunt, a heart pounding stampede of a bad ass thriller and a science fiction extravaganza.
What more could anyone ask for? The science descriptions were spot on and the facts well vetted. The only knock was that there were scenes that could have been written with less words but all in all my zest for a SF and thriller were satisfied. When you have read the last words; you would be left with a profound feeling of I want more Ford and will look forward to the next in the series.
Sep 30, Greg rated it it was ok Shelves: I recall being on the disappointed side with "Canyon", as I was expecting something like a combination of Preston's great "Relic" and Crichton's great "Jurrassic Park". But no, this is a rather weak outing by this author. Best to stick to Preston's Pendergast work and his latest aforementioned "Monkey God.
Feb 25, Wanda rated it really liked it Shelves: A thriller by Douglas Preston, copyright I found the pacing excellent—the point of view changed regularly, but there was no confusion about whose POV each chapter captured. There was a perfect number of characters. I could keep them all straight and their names did not blend together to perplex me. The book begins with the moon la A thriller by Douglas Preston, copyright The book begins with the moon landing and some rock samples brought back to earth, one of which mysteriously disappears.
I had truthfully completely forgotten that opening and had to go back and renew my memory to make the connection. But it did work to bring the book full circle. This leads me to wonder who inspired the character of Dr. Iain Corus, the academic mastermind behind one of the major conspiracies.
Having set Corvus up as a complete creep, it is satisfying to see his plans come apart as the book progresses. I guess you can get away from your stressful past in the desert and canyon country as easily as anywhere else—and once again, it worked for the purposes of the novel. He plays on both the anti-intellectual bias of American culture and the current popularity of conspiracy theories to hook his readers into the plot. She posts her findings to the web to show the world.
Back in the desert, the black ops team has tracked Ford down, and Maddox is gaining on Tom and Sally. They manage to overpower Maddox and kill him, retrieving the notebook, and Ford leads them out of the canyon in an effort to evade the government assassins. Trapped in an old Anasazi cave, they discover the partially excavated Tyrannosaurus Rex just before Masago's team converges on their location.
Ford repeatedly reminds the team commander, Hitt, that Masago is ordering them to kill unarmed American civilians on American soil without first explaining to them why, which convinces Hitt and the rest of the team to turn on him. They then force Masago to tell them about the lethal Venus particles, which had also been found on the moon, thus establishing their extraterrestrial origin.
As the entire team takes off in the helicopter, Masago breaks free and kills the pilot before being restrained by Ford and Broadbent. Despite the co-pilot's attempts, the helicopter crashes into a cliff.
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Though Tom and Sally manage to escape first and rather quickly, Tom heads back into the burning wreckage to save Ford and Hitt. With Sally's help, the four manage to get away just before the helicopter explodes, killing Masago, the co-pilot, and all of the other soldiers on board. By the time they arrive with news about the dinosaur's location, Melodie's research has spread across the Internet.
All those involved are made famous, including Robbie Weathers, the old prospector's daughter. The Smithsonian Institution funds a program to research the Venus particles and the dinosaur itself, which is christened by Robbie and named after her. At the reception, Ford makes an off-hand remark where he speculates that the particles may have been intentionally developed by an alien race, so as to destroy the dinosaurs and allow humans to begin their evolution. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Tyrannosaur Canyon Hardcover edition. Mount Dragon Riptide Thunderhead Aloysius Pendergast Vincent D'Agosta.
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