The Dinosaur Hunter A Novel

Life on the ranchlands of Montana comes with more than its share of trouble. The cowboys who work this untamed stretch of the American West expect it--and some of them even enjoy it. One of them is Mike Wire, a former homicide detective. But Mike is soon to learn murder and mayhem can happen under Montana's big skies, too. The badlands aren't home to just horses, cattle, cowboys, and cowgirls. Beneath the earth lie enough dinosaur fossils to fill several museum collections--and make a fortune for whoever claims them first. Soon Mike will have to combine everything he learned as a cop with everything he knows as a cowboy to protect the people and the land he could never live without. Bestselling author Homer Hickam enters new territory to pay tribute to the American West and the attitudes that make it such an incomparable part of the country.

When he’s not writing bestsellers such as Rocket Boys/October Sky, Homer Hickam goes dinosaur hunting in Montana. His important finds include two Tyrannosaurus rexes and numerous other creatures of the Cretaceous Period. He lives in Huntsville, Alabama.