Dragon Teeth -

Michael Crichton

Harper

2017

304 páginas

10h 8m

ISBN-10: 0062473352

The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America’s western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars.

Into this treacherous territory plunges the arrogant and entitled William Johnson, a Yale student with more privilege than sense. Determined to survive a summer in the west to win a bet against his arch-rival, William has joined world-renowned paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh on his latest expedition. But when the paranoid and secretive Marsh becomes convinced that William is spying for his nemesis, Edwin Drinker Cope, he abandons him in Cheyenne, Wyoming, a locus of crime and vice. William is forced to join forces with Cope and soon stumbles upon a discovery of historic proportions. With this extraordinary treasure, however, comes exceptional danger, and William’s newfound resilience will be tested in his struggle to protect his cache, which pits him against some of the West’s most notorious characters.

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4 (Muito bom)

Sinto gosto de poeira até agora.

A história da rivalidade entre duas mentes brilhantes é um clássico. O fato de ter sido baseada em fatos reais, me deixou ainda mais impressionada.
A história se desenrola como num filme, realmente uma aventura. Cheia de encrencas, novidades, preocupações, e claro, uma boa perseguição (em carroças e cavalos) e um bom tiroteio.

Michael Crichton é também o autor de Jurassic Park e derivados, então esperem uns achados importantes. ;)

Minha sugestão pessoal é que leiam a história com uma boa trilha sonora de Velho Oeste ao fundo, tipo Enio Morricone ou WestWorld.