num_pages: 372
description:  In his most dazzling thriller to date Philip Kerr spins a tale of high adventure in which science politics and human frailty combine to take us on a stunning foray into the nature of man.Clinging to the Southwest face of Annapurna the climber cuts another handhold. Suddenly everything goes still -- then the mountain roars shaking loose its killing load tumbling the climber before it. In an ice cave high in the Himalayas a perfectly preserved skull is found. A fossil from a long-ago era it is neither ape nor man.Three hundred miles away in the Punjab Pakistan and India rattle their nuclear arsenals edging ever closer to catastrophe. And in a lab on the Berkeley campus a paleoanthropologist learns that what she took to be a fossil find of the first order is in fact the scientific discovery of a lifetime -- proof of an alternate line of hominid development. Missing Link. Yeti. New Species. Hairy Man. Call it what you will. Call it Esau.
language: English
title: Esau
publisher: Henry Holt & Co