TYRANNOSAUR CANYON (Douglas Preston) - January 12/06

Exciting, extremely fast-paced book revolving around the search for a buried T-Rex. Preston is a superb writer and deftly balances almost a dozen characters, although some of these people can't help but come off as superfluous (what, exactly, was the point of the cop who keeps chasing all the wrong leads?) Still, it's crackerjack. ***1/2 out of ****