*** Welcome to piglix ***

Neanderthal (novel)

Neanderthal
JohnDarton Neanderthal.jpg
First edition cover
Author John Darnton
Country United States
Language English
Genre Techno-thriller, Novel
Publisher Random House
Publication date
April 1996
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 368 p. (hardback edition) & 395 p. (paperback edition)
ISBN (hardback edition) & (paperback edition)
OCLC 34284189
813/.54 20
LC Class PS3554.A727 N43 1996

Neanderthal is a bestselling novel written by John Darnton published by Random House in 1996.

The plot of Neanderthal revolves around two rival scientists, Matt Mattison and Susan Arnot, who are sent by the United States government to search for missing Harvard anthropologist James Kellicut. Their only clue is the skull of a Neanderthal. Carbon dating shows that the skull, which should be 40,000 years old, is suspiciously only 25 years old.

The Russian and American governments are competing to study the surviving Neanderthals in Tajikistan in order to learn more about their "remote viewing" capabilities. The Neanderthals are split into two tribes, a peaceful valley tribe and a cannibalistic and violent mountain tribe. Soon, the protagonists are captured by Neanderthals and must try to escape from the cannibals. They hope to do so without jeopardizing the safety of the peaceful tribe. It eventually, however, becomes necessary to train the peaceful tribe for war. The novel explains that a completely peaceful society like that was doomed in any case, and would have been destroyed soon by the mountain tribe.



...
Wikipedia

...