The bone hunters

Peking Man, the 780,000-year-old remains of the earliest known human ancestor, vanished during World War II from a cargo ship bound for America. One of the great archaeological finds of all time has never been recovered.

Now a new religion is spreading that holds Peking Man to be God. The Chinese government is determined to stop it from taking root, and it sends ruthless operatives to locate the fossil and destroy it.

The U.S. government has its own team looking. Professor Barnaby Finchem leads it, with his brilliant protégé Lexy Vaughan and the pilot Steve Macaulay.

The hunt moves from the mountains of Bavaria to the jungles of Central America and over the Pacific. It is an adventure thriller built on pursuit, with storms and terrain as dangerous as the human enemies on the trail. The question driving it is who reaches the bones first, and what that party plans to do with them.