DESCRIPTION
This literary thriller, a bestseller in the author’s native South Africa, combines mysticism and modern science in a quest for fossils in Kenya that leads to death on the veldt. The expedition led by paleontologist Kathryn Widd to examine an ancient skull soon begins to echo fatefully the ill-fated 1908 expedition of John Henry Patterson to the same area. Discoveries that raise troubling questions about man’s more violent tendencies also lead the researchers into the realms of black magic, quantum physics, and the darker reaches of the human soul.