Two rival paleontologists are summoned to find their college mentor who has disappeared in Tajikstan. They find that a race of Neanderthals with a facility for "remote viewing" have survived on the Himalayas, and American and Russian agents want to use them for military and espionage purposes.
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John Darnton was born in New York City in 1941. He has worked for thirty years as a reporter, editor, and foreign correspondent for The New York Times, based in New York, Nigeria, Kenya, Spain, Poland, and the United Kingdom. He won the George Polk Award for his coverage of Africa and Eastern Europe, and in 1982 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for stories smuggled out of Poland during martial law. He is married to Nina Darnton, also a journalist. They have two daughters, Kyra and Liza, and a son, Jaime. They live in New York City, where Darnton is the Culture Editor for The New York Times.
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