The Dinosaur Hunter » (First Edition)

When he's not writing bestsellers such as Rocket Boys/October Sky, Back to the Moon, The Coalwood Way, and The Keeper's Son, HOMER HICKAM goes dinosaur hunting in the ranchlands and badlands of Montana. His important finds include two Tyrannosaurus Rexes and numerous other creatures of the Cretaceous Period. Please visit http://www.homerhickam.com for more information.

Life on Montana’s ranches comes with more than its share of trouble. The people who live there expect it—some of them even enjoy it. One of them is Mike Wire, a former homicide detective who now spends his days running the Square C Ranch and pining for its owner, Jeanette Coulter.

But the badlands are home to more than horses, cattle, and cowboys. Beneath the surface are dinosaur bones that could be worth a fortune. When a paleontologist arrives at the ranch to dig, Mike senses trouble. Once discovered, those bones won’t stay buried, and when a murderer begins to stalk the dinosaur hunting grounds, Mike will have to fight to protect the people and the land he has come to love.

The Washington Post - Carolyn See

[Hickam's] tone is lively, gregarious, the words of an old-fashioned, mannerly gent. And it's this endearing tone that carries over into his fictional counterpart in this novel, an ex-cop named Mike Wire, whose earlier career was cut short by a rain of hostile bullets…The Dinosaur Hunter is not profound, by any means, but it's fun, and if you don't already live in Montana, it's a perfect escape.