Esau

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.

• Author
• Philip Kerr

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 372

• Publisher
• Henry Holt & Company

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-8050-5175-9

• EAN
• 9780805051759

• Genres
• fiction, thriller, suspense, mystery, adventure, novels, anthropology, fantasy, horror

• Release date
• 1997