Tyrannosaur Canyon by Douglas Preston

After surviving a murderous ordeal in the jungles of Costa Rica, Tom and Sally Broadbent return home to the canyons of New Mexico, where more trouble awaits. The greatest scientific discovery of all time leads several unscrupulous types to their door.

A bit of a stretch, then increasingly so, well into preposterous and beyond. The main characters are Mary Sues, the villains cartoonish, the situations more and more hokey. Which makes the tension nonexistent because—not a spoiler—the reader knows that the heroes will miraculously escape this predicament and the next. It would probably work better as a movie than it did as a book, and I bet that was the hope. (If they do make it a movie, they should get Sydney Greenstreet to play the small role that’s perfect for him. I would totally watch that.)

Anyhow, fun for a change of pace. Noble heroes, imaginative albeit contrived story elements. I’ll probably stick to Preston’s nonfiction in future: that’s much more my thing.