The dark place
By: Aaron J. Elkins.
Publisher: Walker
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Oliver, Gideon (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Forensic anthropologists -- Fiction; College teachers -- Fiction; Yana Indians -- Fiction; Washington (State) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Deep in the primeval rainforest of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula, the skeletal remains of a murdered man are discovered. And a strange, unsettling tale begins to unfold, for forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver determines that the murder weapon was a primitive bone spear of a type not seen for the last ten thousand years. And whoever—or whatever—hurled it did so with seemingly superhuman force. Bigfoot "sightings" immediately crop up, but Gideon is not buying them.
But something is continuing to kill people, and Gideon, helped by forest ranger Julie Tendler and FBI special agent John Lau, plunges into the dark heart of an unexplored wilderness to uncover the bizarre, astonishing explanation.