Raptor Red

A pair of fierce but beautiful eyes look out from the undergrowth ofconifers. She is an intelligent killer... So begins one of the most extraordinary novels you will ever read. The time is 120 million years ago, the place is the plains of prehistoric Utah, and theeyes belong to an unforgettable heroine. Her name is Raptor Red, and she is afemale Raptor dinosaur.Painting a rich and colorful picture of a lush prehistoric world, leadingpaleontologist Robert T. Bakker tells his story from within Raptor Red's extraordinary mind, dramatizing his revolutionary theories in this excitingtale. From a tragic loss to the fierce struggle for survival to a daringmigration to the Pacific Ocean to escape a deadly new predator, "RaptorRed" combines fact an fiction to capture for the first time the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors of the most magnificent, enigmatic creatures ever towalk the face of the earth."What the real Jurassic Park must have been like...exciting, bold and fun!"-- "Publishers Weekly" A Utahraptor who identifies herself as Red, grows up into the world of the dinosaurs, striving to survive, find a mate and start a family of her own. Needless to say there are other troubles that hinder her dreams and progress, sometimes plunging her towards peril and death. Raptor Red captures the essence of what being a dinosaur in the Cretaceous period is like and the primal survival instincts. Food, water, family and life.