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Mesozoic
Scientists from the future travel back to the time of the dinosaurs to discover how life survives mass extinction events. The Earth itself has gone through just such an event, known to the survivors as the Collapse. The civilisation that we know has gone. A new civilisation is emerging. One based on science and reason, built on technology efficiently exploiting the resources in a manner that does not destroy the environment or the ecologies it supports.
On this particular visit, they bring with them, by special request, Dr Eva Kiesler, the next Leader of the Assembly-Elect. She will lead the government of what remains of the free peoples of the world. Little do they know that her presence will provoke a murderer to claim their first victim and plunge them all into a terrifying survival ordeal.
What begins as a pleasant walk through the Triassic Period admiring the ancient life there becomes a mission to stop a determined killer. The members of the Palaeontological Field Time Unit (PFTU) find themselves trapped 200 million years in the past. They must pass through all three time periods of the Mesozoic Era to catch the one responsible for killing their colleague. They must also do this before the last time machine is destroyed and their escape route back to their own time is closed forever.
Travelling on foot the PFTU hazard all manner of prehistoric life in their quest to catch the killer. All the time they are unaware that one of their members is a traitor planning an assassination. Racing against time, escaping animal attacks, fighting hidden enemies, Mesozoic is a thrilling Science Fiction Thriller. A time travelling dinosaur adventure. A window on the past and on a possible future.
On this particular visit, they bring with them, by special request, Dr Eva Kiesler, the next Leader of the Assembly-Elect. She will lead the government of what remains of the free peoples of the world. Little do they know that her presence will provoke a murderer to claim their first victim and plunge them all into a terrifying survival ordeal.
What begins as a pleasant walk through the Triassic Period admiring the ancient life there becomes a mission to stop a determined killer. The members of the Palaeontological Field Time Unit (PFTU) find themselves trapped 200 million years in the past. They must pass through all three time periods of the Mesozoic Era to catch the one responsible for killing their colleague. They must also do this before the last time machine is destroyed and their escape route back to their own time is closed forever.
Travelling on foot the PFTU hazard all manner of prehistoric life in their quest to catch the killer. All the time they are unaware that one of their members is a traitor planning an assassination. Racing against time, escaping animal attacks, fighting hidden enemies, Mesozoic is a thrilling Science Fiction Thriller. A time travelling dinosaur adventure. A window on the past and on a possible future.
247 pages, Paperback
Published February 1, 2018
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Peter C. Whitaker
6 books9 followersMy father worked in engineering and mother in printing. I left school with unexceptional qualifications and after a series of dead-end jobs I went to Coleg Harlech Adult Education College in Gwynedd, North Wales, to study English Literature and Philosophy. After graduating I drifted into the Civil Service.
My mother ensured that both I and my two brothers could read and write before we started school, a gift that I am always grateful to her for. It is as a result of this that I have always been an avid reader. My main criteria for picking up a book to read is the hope that it has a good story, the genre always comes second to me. As a result I have read very widely and I don’t have any favourites. I do return to particular authors but I am not the kind of reader who must have someone’s latest book as soon as it comes out, I’ll get around to it eventually.
I am interested in an equally diverse number of subjects, my main interests being natural history, human history, art, theatre, cinema, football, travelling, science, and politics to a degree. I love life and the living of it and I hope that this is reflected in my writing.
My mother ensured that both I and my two brothers could read and write before we started school, a gift that I am always grateful to her for. It is as a result of this that I have always been an avid reader. My main criteria for picking up a book to read is the hope that it has a good story, the genre always comes second to me. As a result I have read very widely and I don’t have any favourites. I do return to particular authors but I am not the kind of reader who must have someone’s latest book as soon as it comes out, I’ll get around to it eventually.
I am interested in an equally diverse number of subjects, my main interests being natural history, human history, art, theatre, cinema, football, travelling, science, and politics to a degree. I love life and the living of it and I hope that this is reflected in my writing.
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August 16, 2020
Where to start? The dinosaurs are well researched and well written. The post-apocalyptic society is well thought out and well written. Put together, the book reads as a lecture on what could happen if you mash the two together and forget to put in character development and any real semblance of a plot.
January 13, 2019
Mesozoic
Great book! Great plot and many twists and turns. Would love to read more about the teams and the political environment of this story. Hoping this will become a series. Well worth the read. Could not put it down.
Great book! Great plot and many twists and turns. Would love to read more about the teams and the political environment of this story. Hoping this will become a series. Well worth the read. Could not put it down.
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