This book by Dan Abnett is set in the brilliant world of that old ITV show Primeval - which if you never saw, oh boy were you missing out. It was ridiculous. Though this is only the second-best dinosaur novel I've read recently (sorry Dan, but you just edged out on beating the classic) it is still a thoroughly good novel. The characters are sketched perfectly so it feels just like you're watching the show; the plot is outstandingly well-paced, full of suspense and twists and the page-equivalent of jump-scares; the dinosaurs themselves are smelly and believable. Like most books based on TV shows from over a decade ago this will probably be quite hard to get your hands on, but if you like prehistoric beast-driven mayhem, sneaky Russians, and hard-nosed English paleontologists flailing to keep it all together - you'll almost certainly like this.
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