A fictional account of the "bone wars" a rivalry between two paleontologists looking for dinosaur fossils. This book tell the story of a "dig" in the summer of 1876. Several characters are real people but the events are compressed and much of it fictionalized. William Johnson, an young, rich Yale student ends up on this trip to dig for fossils and quite a trip it turns out to be. He is separated from his group and ends up guarding 10 large boxes of bones that everyone else thinks must be gold or something of real value. There are good adventures but overall the book isn't as well written as you would hope. Later I read this was a draft found in Crichton's papers so maybe his next version would have been better. The narration by Scott Brick is very good but can't totally save the story.
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