HarperCollins will publish a new Michael Crichton novel entitled Dragon Teeth. Crichton, a filmmaker and the renowned author behind the Jurassic Park novel, passed away in 2008.
The manuscript was uncovered by Crichton’s wife, Sherri Crichton. Jonathan Burnham, the publisher of Harper, and Jennifer Barth, an executive editor, managed the acquisition process. The book will be released in the following countries in May 2017: the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and India.
Here’s more from the press release: “Michael Crichton’s DRAGON TEETH follows the notorious rivalry between real-life paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh during a time of intense fossil speculation and discovery in the American West in 1878. The story unfolds through the adventures of a young fictional character named William Johnson who is apprenticed first to one, then to the other and not only makes discoveries of historic proportion, but transforms into an inspiring hero only Crichton could have imagined. Known for his meticulous research, Crichton uses Marsh and Copes’ heated competition during the ‘Bone Wars,’ the golden age of American fossil hunting, as the basis for a thrilling story set in the wilds of the American West.”