BONE MOUNTAIN - Robert Hughes

BONE MOUNTAIN is the first in a series of thrillers starring ex-FBI agent Brian McKay and his intrepid niece, college student Darcy McKay. The McKays team up to defeat a violent gang shadowing the excavation of the world's first intact T. Rex skeleton. The action jumps between the mean streets of Chicago and the mountains of Montana. Darcy McKay is digging up a dinosaur bone at the Montana T. Rex dig site on a warm summer day, when a shot is fired and a bullet rips through her shoulder. A psychotic thug kidnaps her from Bone Mountain. Darcy's uncle and sole living relative, Brian McKay, gets word on his last day with the FBI in Chicago and rushes west to find her. The investigation triggers a tangled web of murders. As Brian and Darcy fight for their lives, they encounter a menacing grizzly bear, a shady Chicago billionaire, a pair of bizarre lowlife brothers, a malicious ex-cop and a thundering herd of bison.