The Gift: Discovery, Treachery, & Revenge by Jon Kalb order directly from the publisher Special Delivery Books 46561 State Hwy. 118 Alpine TX 79830 877-380-3321 or JNwriter@AOL.com order ISBN:978-1-934335-06-2 $13.95 paperback

About the Book:

A brilliant but unscrupulous paleoanthropologist, mysteriously expelled from Harvard University, resurfaces at the University of Texas. Soon it is learned that he caused the death of a graduate student while still in Cambridge. He then steals a major discovery from another student in Austin. The find pro- mises to alter all thinking about human origins in North America, even as it becomes entangled in a plot of greed and treachery. In this novel, the author tells the story with insight, and humor, drawn from his experiences in the cutthroat, headline-grabbing search for fossil hominids, as described in his award-winning non-fiction book, Adventures in the Bone Trade (Copernicus Books, 2001). In The Gift, the setting has changed from the badlands of Africa to the rugged borderlands of West Texas. A geologist by training, the author is a research fellow with the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin, and is presently engaged in fieldwork in the Rio Grande Valley.