Living Memory

When paleontologists Samira and Kit uncover a dinosaur bonebed in northern Thailand, the fossils turn out to carry the remains of an ancient genetic technology — the work of a civilization that rose and fell sixty-six million years before ours. It is a discovery that nations will kill to control.

The two are pulled into a web of murder and intrigue involving the Chinese Ministry of State Security, an Asian crime syndicate, the CIA, and a Thai princess, and are driven apart onto opposite sides of the world by the competing factions closing around them.

David Walton braids three strands — present-day Colorado, present-day Thailand, and the land that would one day become Thailand, sixty-six million years ago — into a thriller that is as interested in what the dinosaurs built as in who wants it now. It is the first book of a trilogy, followed by Deadly Memory and Memory Reborn.