"Wicked satire. Fast and funny. Ben Rehder is the wittiest writer working today." Mark Gimenez, bestselling author of The Abduction.
When televangelist Peter Boothe decides to build a mega-church on the banks of the Pedernales River in Blanco County, he thinks his biggest problem will be a few unhappy neighbors. But when backhoe operator Hollis Farley unearths a rare fossil on the construction site—a discovery that could lead to plenty of embarrassing publicity—the cover-up begins. Soon, Farley is dead, shot in the back with an arrow, and game warden John Marlin is asked to helped with the case.
What he and the local deputies find is a suspect list of biblical proportions. Could it have been the bitter geology professor? The private fossil collector with a somewhat unusual fetish? The minister's wife who takes the Commandments rather lightly? Or the geriatric environmentalist with a mean right hook? Nothing is sacred in Rehder's most laughable satire yet, a twisted tale of greed, corruption, infidelity, and, yes, paleontology.