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Tooth & Claw
The race against extinction has already begun . . .
Alex Cook, shark biologist, wants nothing more than to finish his graduate degree, go to happy hour with his best friends, and move on to the next stage of his career. However, while on an overseas trip to London, Alex’s life gets thrown off course when he accidentally discovers a secret journal written by renowned naturalist and father of evolutionary biology, Charles Darwin, alluding to hidden natural treasures scientists thought had vanished tens of thousands of years ago. If genuine, the discovery would alter our view of history forever and present untold opportunities for the entire scientific world to explore. But his mishap puts him in looming peril as Alex quickly realizes that others with hostile intentions are seeking the journal and the potential riches to which it leads. Suddenly, the UK’s most vicious predators are on the hunt and Alex finds himself mere steps ahead of them, solving one puzzle after another just to stay alive.
An ensuing chain of events thrusts Alex and three of his most trusted companions on a journey around the globe, setting them on a path filled with dangerous obstacles and baffling discoveries, straight into a hidden, ancient world as perilous as it is beautiful, where he realizes that nature has been keeping more secrets than he could have ever imagined. Caught between bullets, beaks, teeth, and claws, the young man who studies predators suddenly finds himself the prey. To succeed in protecting Darwin’s secret legacy and avoid getting shot, stabbed, trampled, or eaten, Alex and his friends must rely upon their intellects, instincts, scientific backgrounds, and some highly unexpected allies to either survive or go extinct.
Tooth & Claw combines nature, science, and cutting-edge technology with action, travel, danger, and a pinch of humor, in an epic, witty, country-hopping adventure that is as enlightening as it is entertaining. Dive deep into biology, paleontology, geography, culture, and the astounding yet occasionally sordid history of exploration through vivid descriptions and lavish, well-researched footnotes. London's famed museum collections, tropical rainforest hazards, spiny puffer fish, lethal flightless birds, poison dart frogs, international thugs, tracking devices, living fossils, and strategic text messaging have never been more fascinating.
Alex Cook, shark biologist, wants nothing more than to finish his graduate degree, go to happy hour with his best friends, and move on to the next stage of his career. However, while on an overseas trip to London, Alex’s life gets thrown off course when he accidentally discovers a secret journal written by renowned naturalist and father of evolutionary biology, Charles Darwin, alluding to hidden natural treasures scientists thought had vanished tens of thousands of years ago. If genuine, the discovery would alter our view of history forever and present untold opportunities for the entire scientific world to explore. But his mishap puts him in looming peril as Alex quickly realizes that others with hostile intentions are seeking the journal and the potential riches to which it leads. Suddenly, the UK’s most vicious predators are on the hunt and Alex finds himself mere steps ahead of them, solving one puzzle after another just to stay alive.
An ensuing chain of events thrusts Alex and three of his most trusted companions on a journey around the globe, setting them on a path filled with dangerous obstacles and baffling discoveries, straight into a hidden, ancient world as perilous as it is beautiful, where he realizes that nature has been keeping more secrets than he could have ever imagined. Caught between bullets, beaks, teeth, and claws, the young man who studies predators suddenly finds himself the prey. To succeed in protecting Darwin’s secret legacy and avoid getting shot, stabbed, trampled, or eaten, Alex and his friends must rely upon their intellects, instincts, scientific backgrounds, and some highly unexpected allies to either survive or go extinct.
Tooth & Claw combines nature, science, and cutting-edge technology with action, travel, danger, and a pinch of humor, in an epic, witty, country-hopping adventure that is as enlightening as it is entertaining. Dive deep into biology, paleontology, geography, culture, and the astounding yet occasionally sordid history of exploration through vivid descriptions and lavish, well-researched footnotes. London's famed museum collections, tropical rainforest hazards, spiny puffer fish, lethal flightless birds, poison dart frogs, international thugs, tracking devices, living fossils, and strategic text messaging have never been more fascinating.
688 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 21, 2017
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