Extinction

With Extinction,#1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston has written an epic thriller in the Michael Crichton mode that explores the very real effort to resurrect the woolly mammoth and other extinct megafauna from the Pleistocene Age. Erebus Resortoccupying a magnificenthundred-thousand acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockiesoffers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammothsIrish Elkand giant ground sloths in their native habitatbrought back from extinction through the magic of genetic manipulation. When a billionaire’s son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered in the Erebus back country by what is assumed to be a gang of eco-terroristsColorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash partners with county sheriff James Colcord to track down the perpetrators. As killings mount and the valley is evacuatedCash and Colcord must confront an ancientintelligentand malevolent presence at Erebusbent not on resurrectionΓÇöbut extinction.