Extinction

Douglas Preston is a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine, and worked at the American Museum of Natural History, which would become very useful for the construction of these stories.
Douglas Preston is the co-author, along with Lincoln Child, of a series of hugely successful novels, starring FBI Special Agent Pendergast. Among these novels, in addition to Sulphur, which marks the beginning of an astonishing trilogy, are Relic, Mount Dragon, Reliquary, Riptide, Thunderhead, The Ice Limit, Still Life with Crows, The Cabinet of Curiosities and Dance of Death.