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Mystery/SuspenseLarge Print Edition* A New York Times Bestseller* A Book-of-the-month Club Main SelectionIn the mountains of northern Asia, a guerilla fighter vanishes, a schoolgirl is murdered and an eminent Harvard paleontologist disappears. To a shadowy government agency, these are the signs that something has gone terribly wrong in one of their secret expeditions. Matt Mattison and Susan Arnot, ex-lovers and rival academics, are dispatched to find the secret their Harvard mentor was seeking: a species linked to the origins of mankind. John Darnton combines breathtaking suspense, through scientific research, and dazzling storytelling as archeologists and rival governments attempt to track down a relic band of pre-humans.

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