Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton

"This is the fictionalized account of the real-life, cutthroat rivalry between two of America's earliest, preeminent paleontologists, Edward Drinker Cope of Philadelphia and Othniel Charles Marsh of Yale."  So describes the USA Today's Dan Oldenburg in his May 2017 review of this delightful book.  Historical fiction with some reality tossed it?  Adventures with dinosaur bones?  The wild west?  A coming of age book?  I'm in!

I've read many of Crichton's books over the year with varying degrees of enjoyment...I think as a general rule I like his stuff well enough but I generally find the stories more compelling than the writing.  This book, published posthumously, was more polished than some of his other works.  I found it delightfully entertaining and it made me want to revisit his collection to see if in my advanced age I would like them more than I recalled.  Alas, I haven't gotten around to doing this yet.

If you like this sort of thing, I recommend.

Rating:  Enjoyed it very much #3