Hominid John C. Boland | ISBN : 1-935797-16-6

Hominid

Author: John C. Boland

Publisher: Perfect Crime Books

Publication Date: 15 October, 2011

ISBN: 9781935797166

Pages: 350

Subjects: Suspense, Thrillers

Available as: , Trade Paper, 978-1-935797-16-6

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Publishers Weekly Starred Review: "Superior science fiction thriller. . . . Boland's taut atmospherics are top-notch, and the evolutionary themes he explores are easily accessible to nonscientists." Archaeologist David Isaac joins a team excavating a crypt on a remote island where a colonial-era family lies buried. By local lore, the family were "devils." The expedition's leader hopes to revive his career by proving they were murdered by neighbors in a burst of religious hysteria. But these cadavers harbor an older and deadlier secret. And nobody is prepared for what is about to emerge--which will challenge the basic concept of "what is human."

PW Publishers Weekly

Review Source: Publishers Weekly

Review Date: 2011-08-15

At the start of this superior science fiction thriller from Boland (Out of Her Depth), archeologist David Isaac arrives on Chesapeake Bay's Ewell Island, once occupied by people driven out of the Maryland colony in 1670, to help his mentor, Noel Sprague. Sprague, the expedition's leader, hopes to unearth three coffins containing members of one of the island's first families, who were suspected by their contemporaries of being Satanists. Tragedy strikes after Roberta Gerson, a well-liked young scientist "developing a specialty in Colonial village life," is lost in a suddenly flooded excavation pit. When the receding waters allow Isaac to go below, he finds evidence that Gerson's death was no accident. Meanwhile, a dogged investigator from the National Institute of Science probes the organization behind the expedition, the shadowy St. Leger Foundation. Boland's taut atmospherics, especially in the scenes set on Ewell Island, are top-notch, and the evolutionary themes he explores are easily accessible to nonscientists. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.