{"product_id":"into-the-shadowland-the-secret-of-the-last-neanderthals","title":"INTO THE SHADOWLAND: The Secret of the Last Neanderthals","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eINTO THE SHADOWLAND: The Secret of the Last Neanderthals\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Think Neanderthals were just grunting brutes? Think again. This fascinating journey into our deep past will challenge everything you thought you knew about our long-lost cousins.\" — Patrick Keeney, Canadian Author and Journalist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA DEADLY ACCIDENT. AN IMPOSSIBLE ARTIFACT. A SPECIES THAT REFUSED TO DIE.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForty-three miles east of Salt Lake City, a high-speed collision on a lonely highway reveals something that shouldn't exist. When wolf expert Lilly Feron is called to the scene, she expects a common gray wolf. What she finds is a biological anomaly: a massive, prehistoric Beringian wolf—a predator that officially went extinct at the end of the Ice Age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut the wolf is just the beginning\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLodged in the animal’s vertebrae is a weapon as ancient as the beast itself: a hand-carved spearhead of exquisite craftsmanship, engraved with a microscopic map. When Lilly enlists the help of unconventional paleoanthropologist Professor Austin Walker, their analysis uncovers a secret that could rewrite human history. The DNA extracted from the bone weapon doesn’t match any known human profile. It matches the genome of Homo neanderthalensis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTHEY ARE NOT GONE. THEY ARE HIDING.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeep in the treacherous wilderness of the Bitterroot Mountains, a clan of survivors has flourished in secret for forty thousand years. Protected by the geology of a lost \"glaciokarst\" valley, they are faster, stronger, and more connected to the earth than modern humans could ever dream. Now, Omu, a formidable hunter and the clan’s future leader, has ventured out of the shadows. He is tracking the wolf to retrieve the sacred map that protects his people's sanctuary—and he will stop at nothing to get it back.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut Omu is not the only hunter in the forest.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe FBI, fearing a biological threat, has deployed a ruthless team of poachers and an elite Shadow Wolf tracker to hunt him down. As modern technology clashes with ancient instinct, Lilly and Walker must race to decode the map and find the Hidden Valley before the modern world destroys the last remnants of our ancient family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBASED ON REAL NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING SCIENCE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInto The Shadowland weaves heart-pounding action with the cutting-edge science of paleogenomics. Building on the groundbreaking work of Svante Pääbo—winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in for sequencing the Neanderthal genome—author J.M.G. Schmidt constructs a frighteningly plausible \"what if?\" scenario.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe novel integrates real-world discoveries, including:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Neanderthal Genome Project\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which proved our ancestors interbred with archaic humans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe existence of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBeringian Wolf\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a distinct Ice Age ecomorph capable of hunting megafauna.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe tactical skills of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShadow Wolves\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, an elite unit of Native American trackers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat if the 2% of Neanderthal DNA inside us is just the echo of a thunderous truth? What if the \"extinct\" cousins who painted the caves and buried their dead never truly left?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerfect for fans of Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, Jean M. Auel’s Clan of the Cave Bear, and the high-stakes scientific thrillers of James Rollins.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDive into the shadowland where the past is alive, hunting, and watching.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books Prime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45926233276607,"sku":"b2e76505-323d-488a-90fe-72997c491919","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/7550\/7647\/files\/feadfbc3fa9464ec28d96b2af6421176.jpg?v=1785264443","url":"https:\/\/books-prime.com\/products\/into-the-shadowland-the-secret-of-the-last-neanderthals","provider":"Books Prime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}