Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur Eggs

Informationen zum Autor Max McCoy is an award-winning journalist and author whose novels include The Sixth Rider and Sons of Fire . He lives in Pittsburgh! Kansas. Klappentext Fresh from a ride on a Nazi submarine! Indiana Jones is persuaded by a beautiful missionary to search for her missing father in Mongolia. Professor Angus Starbuck has discovered a dinosaur bone in the Gobi Desert. But unlike other such discoveries! this bone isn't ancient! As Indy crosses from China through a treacherous mountain pass into Outer Mongolia! he runs afoul of the region's fiercest warlords. Meanwhile! the world's last innocent people! dwelling in a Stone Age paradise! are poised on the brink of destruction. Suddenly Indiana Jones is dueling wild dogs and bloodthirsty killers in a desperate effort to save the most historic discovery of the twentieth century: the last living triceratops! 1 Dragon Bones Princeton, New Jersey Halloween 1933 Alone in his tiny office on the fourth floor of the Department of Art and Archaeology, Indiana Jones unscrewed the bottle of Scotch and regarded with contempt the pile of student papers and unanswered mail on his desk. Outside, happy ghouls and goblins raced across the quad in search of new victims. But Indiana Jones's door was locked. He had even disconnected his telephone. He had a bellyful of superstition and did not want to be reminded that his belief in science remained unreconciled to his own bitter experience. It had been a week since he felt like working, and as the stack of papers grew, the less he was inclined even to begin. Dragging himself to class every day had become an unendurable chore, and he had curtailed many of his lectures and substituted instead heavy reading assignments and guest lecturers. His students would have had cause for concern if his chief pinch hitter had not been Marcus Brody of the American Museum of Natural History. Indy's routine now pivoted upon the arrival of the daily mail. Only then, as department secretary Penelope Angstrom handed him a new bundle each morning, did a glimmer of hope beat within his chest. Asking Miss Angstrom to shut the door on her way out, he would sort slowly through the letters without opening them. When he had finished he would sort through them again. Invariably, none were postmarked London. The bottle of Scotch was the latest addition. He had carried it back to his office and shut himself in this evening on the pretense of attempting to jump-start his flagging work ethic. He allowed himself a crooked smile as he imagined how his father, Professor Henry Jones, would react to this unpardonable breach of trust between a teacher and his pupils. He poured some Scotch, swished the smoky liquid around in the glass, then raised it in a mock toast. "Here's to you, Alecia," Indy said. "Or at least, your memory." As he closed his eyes and brought the glass to his lips, there came a knock that was so soft that Indy was not sure that anyone was at the door. He paused, with the glass beneath his chin, and when the knock came again he shouted that the department was closed. "I'm sorry," came a female voice. "But I'm looking for Dr. Jones." Indy was relieved. Princeton was not coeducational, so it could not be a student seeking him out to demand what had become of this paper or that. "Just a moment," he said, smoothing his hair and straightening his tie. He had almost made it to the door when he remembered the Scotch. He bounded back to his desk, recapped the bottle, and searched frantically for a place to hide it. Not a single desk drawer or file cabinet had enough space left. So he placed the bottle on the floor beside his chair, then snatched up the glass. He began to pour it into a potted plant beside the door, then stopped for fear it would kill the plant. In frustration, he tossed the contents down his throat and ...

Product details

• Authors: Max Mccoy
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.1996
• EAN: 9780553561937
• ISBN: 978-0-553-56193-7
• Series: Indiana Jones; Indiana Jones
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature