The Turquoise Dragon Author:David Rains Wallace The Turquoise Dragon is a fast-paced adventure thriller with an ecological twist. George Kilgore, a forester living quietly in the foothills of California's rugged Klamath Mountains, stumbles into a deadly web of intrigue when he discovers the body of a murdered biologist friend. With the uncomfortable feeling that homicide inves... more »tigators have put him at the top of their list of suspects, Kilgore reluctantly begins his own investigation, compelled first by horror and then by growing curiosity.
Kilgore is the most unlikely of detective heroes. Droll, pensive, and disillusioned by a brief flirtation with pot growing and by the failure of his marriage, his skills as a naturalist and a backpacker have ill-prepared him for the burtal realities of murder and intrigue. Kilgore falls deeper into jeopardy when he learns that his friend had a secret some would kill to know: the discovery of the breeding grounds of the turquoise dragon, a salamander of spectacular beauty and one of the rarest animal species in the world.« less