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Televangelist Peter Boothe's plans to build a mega-church on the banks of the Pedernales River are threatened when backhoe operator Hollis Farley unearths a dinosaur fossil on the site, but when Farley turns up dead, Game Warden John Marlin joins the investigation and discovers a host of suspects, including a bitter geology professor, a fossil collector, and the minister's wife. 15,000 first printing.