| Sons of the Morning is DeWitt Copp s most complex and fascinating novel to date. Fifty years ago a team of scientists hunting fossils camped out by a Canadian wilderness lake. They vanished, leaving only remains of the camp and the diary of their leader, Dowd, with its strange, indecipherable diagram. In subsequent years Dowd s mysterious doc- ument drew the huntcrs; Montour, the bushpilot, stole it, ccrtain it would bring him thefreedom he so fiercely sought. Jason, the Brit-ish SOE agent on the run, killed for it, believing he had seen its duplicatc in France. VonWerbcl, the crazed German genius, plotted touse its markings to bring about mass destruc-tion. The invidious Stanhope, of the AshdonFoundation, kept the diary secret against thcday it would make him famous. Now it isDowd s haunted daughter, Kate, who flies tothe deadly lake to find what Dowd s diary de-scribed as "a discovcry like no other" and, indoing so, uncovers the real meaning of evil. |
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