From the White Cliffs of Dover and Stonehenge to the thermal waters of prehistoric Bath, 30,000 B.C. Chronicles:Dover tracks the lives and loves of time travelers shipwrecked in the Paleolithic.
Forever young, botanist Maria Duarte and Italian scalawag Salvatore Bolzano drive the action as Dover explores Southern England from the Stone Age through the dawn of the 20th century. As with other books in the series, Dover is anchored in the Paleolithic and features a modern thread.
Dover plumbs 1907. The Industrial Age is in full swing. Electric lights are replacing candles and automobiles are rapidly putting mankind's longtime companion, the horse, to pasture. Thanks to life extension treatments, Duarte, Bolzano and the enigmatic Hunter have reached their 32,000th year of life. Nobody but these ageless ones knows that World War I is around the corner. Having grown rich using their modern insights, they are in England to put their affairs to rights and be on their way. There's time to learn to play tennis, join a camera club and jumpstart the stalled remodel of their stately home before they are ensnared in webs of espionage and murder.
The Stone Age thread opens atop the Cliffs of Dover as the trio celebrates the end of an around-the-world journey with their aging clanmates. Though Duarte's husband, Hawaiian waterman Paul Kaikane, looks old enough to be her grandfather, she still dearly loves him. Blind army captain Juniper Jones and sage Cro-Magnon mentor Gray Beard are as irascible as ever. Is the great stone they join the natives in dancing around to mark the summer solstice a precursor to Stonehenge? Could anyone on the Team that sent them back in time imagine the wild tumult of the migrating herds and flocks?
Deftly weaving engaging characters, vivid descriptors and thoughtful plot, Dover is part action-adventure novel, part historical primer and part treatise on ethics and mankind's starring role in climate change.
Beautiful Duarte and witty playboy Bolzano enjoy a symbiotic relationship, an attraction akin to what siblings might feel: close but never sexual. They delight in annoying each other, yet are ever ready to spring to the other's defense. Both enjoy seeing that bullies get their due comeuppance.
Hunter also shares this invisible bond. With him, the force repels as well as attracts, damning the inventor with leonine eyes to remain within their orbit, but forever excluded.
Dover is the eighth novel in the 30,000 B.C. Chronicles series. Other titles include: Bordeaux, Tuscany, Gibraltar, Galway, Rome, New York and Babylon.
Genre: Thriller
Forever young, botanist Maria Duarte and Italian scalawag Salvatore Bolzano drive the action as Dover explores Southern England from the Stone Age through the dawn of the 20th century. As with other books in the series, Dover is anchored in the Paleolithic and features a modern thread.
Dover plumbs 1907. The Industrial Age is in full swing. Electric lights are replacing candles and automobiles are rapidly putting mankind's longtime companion, the horse, to pasture. Thanks to life extension treatments, Duarte, Bolzano and the enigmatic Hunter have reached their 32,000th year of life. Nobody but these ageless ones knows that World War I is around the corner. Having grown rich using their modern insights, they are in England to put their affairs to rights and be on their way. There's time to learn to play tennis, join a camera club and jumpstart the stalled remodel of their stately home before they are ensnared in webs of espionage and murder.
The Stone Age thread opens atop the Cliffs of Dover as the trio celebrates the end of an around-the-world journey with their aging clanmates. Though Duarte's husband, Hawaiian waterman Paul Kaikane, looks old enough to be her grandfather, she still dearly loves him. Blind army captain Juniper Jones and sage Cro-Magnon mentor Gray Beard are as irascible as ever. Is the great stone they join the natives in dancing around to mark the summer solstice a precursor to Stonehenge? Could anyone on the Team that sent them back in time imagine the wild tumult of the migrating herds and flocks?
Deftly weaving engaging characters, vivid descriptors and thoughtful plot, Dover is part action-adventure novel, part historical primer and part treatise on ethics and mankind's starring role in climate change.
Beautiful Duarte and witty playboy Bolzano enjoy a symbiotic relationship, an attraction akin to what siblings might feel: close but never sexual. They delight in annoying each other, yet are ever ready to spring to the other's defense. Both enjoy seeing that bullies get their due comeuppance.
Hunter also shares this invisible bond. With him, the force repels as well as attracts, damning the inventor with leonine eyes to remain within their orbit, but forever excluded.
Dover is the eighth novel in the 30,000 B.C. Chronicles series. Other titles include: Bordeaux, Tuscany, Gibraltar, Galway, Rome, New York and Babylon.
Genre: Thriller
Used availability for Matthew Thayer's Chronicles: Dover