THE LAZARUS GENOME

What if extinction was only temporary?

Deep beneath the Alaskan permafrost, a secret DARPA programme has done the impossible: it has brought the dinosaurs back. One hundred and twelve animals — including Tyrannosaurus rex, Deinonychus, and the unsettlingly brilliant Troodon — are alive inside a classified research facility in the Brooks Range.

Then, six days ago, all contact was lost.

Dr. Maya Strand is a palaeontologist who has spent her career arguing that the Troodon — the most cognitively advanced non-avian dinosaur that ever lived — has been catastrophically underestimated. Now a military colonel is asking her to walk into a silent facility in the Arctic dark and find out what happened.

What she discovers is not a containment failure. It is something far more extraordinary, and far more dangerous: evidence that sixty-six million years of waiting has produced a mind ready to negotiate its own survival.

The Lazarus Genome is a propulsive, scientifically grounded thriller about intelligence, extinction, and what happens when the question "what were they capable of?" finally gets an answer.