History Literature / TyrannosaurCanyon

* TheDragon: Weed Maddox. Ex-con (thanks to Corvus) with military training, sociopathic tendencies, and tactical ruthlessness. Also he runs a dating website.
* TheLabRat: Melodie Crookshank, who is literally only depicted working in her basement lab on [[BuffySpeak heavy science-y stuff.]]

* TyrannosaurusRex: It's in the title.

* CutLexLuthorACheck: Cited and averted by Maddox. Instead of networking in prison to advance his criminal career, he used his contacts to make a dating site called Hard Time for women seeking convicts. He comments in other places that if he had known how easy it was to make money legitimately, he never would have bothered with crime.

''TyrannosaurCanyon'' is a paleontology-based thriller by [[Literature/AgentPendergast Douglas Preston]] first published in 2005.

* DumbDinos: While the titular ''T. rex'' is highly intelligent, she's also a being of pure instinct - she doesn't remember anything, not even mating rituals or raising her young, and only lived to eat.

* DumbDinos: The titular ''T. rex'' is portrayed as a being of pure instinct - it doesn't remember anything, not even mating rituals or raising its young, and only lived to eat.

* DumbDinos: The titular T. rex is portrayed as a being of pure instinct - it doesn't remember anything, not even mating rituals or raising its young, and only lived to eat.

** [[spoiler:Even more so, the tyrannosaurus was killed not in combat nor in old age, but by extraterrestrial forces.]]

* ContinuityNod: Two characters are from a previous Preston novel known as ''The Codex''. The events of that novel are vaguely referenced.

''TyrannosaurCanyon'' is a paleontology-based thriller by [[Literature/AgentPendergast Douglas Preston]] first published in 2003.

* NoodleIncident: Honduras. We know Broadbent's father died and Sally handled a firearm well, but no one wants to talk about it.
** Eventually expanded into (and explained in) the prequel novel ''The Codex''.

* OutsideContextVillain

* WeaponForIntimidation: Biler's stolen .22, after the one bullet is fired.

* CutLexLuthorACheck: Cited and strongly averted by Maddox. Instead of networking in prison to advance his criminal career, he used his contacts to make a dating site called Hard Time for women seeking convicts. He comments in other places that if he had known how easy it was to make money legitimately, he never would have bothered with crime.

Among the canyons of New Mexico professional fossil hunter Stem Weathers is murdered. With his
dying breath he gifts a notebook to a passerby, sending him to Weather's estranged daughter
with a message. Frustrated, a shadowy assassin turns his attention to the new bearer
of the precious notebook that documents the greatest paleontological find in Earth's
history.

* FauxActionGirl: Sally Broadbent. She teaches horsemanship and is supposedly a crack shot; [[GenreBlind she even reassures her husband that she'll be fine if left alone for a weekend.]] Then she's captured without much fuss, bungles an escape attempt, and spends the rest of the story being present while Tom saves the day.
* IGaveMyWord: Broadbent's motivation for fulfilling Weather's LastRequest.

* OneBulletLeft: The weapon Broadbent steals only comes with a single round. [[spoiler:Actually averted; the shot goes wild and Broadbent has to menace TheDragon with an empty gun.]]

* TheDragon: Weed Maddox. Ex-con (thanks to Corvus) with substantial military training, sociopathic tendencies, and tactical ruthlessness. Also he runs a dating website.

* ViewersAreGeniuses: Almost any scene involving Melodie Crookshank will be heavy on technical terminology and light on explanation. Justified since she's only speaking to herself or other professionals who already understand, but difficult for average readers.

** Broadbent himself seems to believe this when he doesn't contact the police in the wake of
Sally's kidnapping.

** Finally, Willer is rendered impotent by the appearance of federal forces right before he
might have been useful in the desert.

''Tyrannosaur Canyon'' is a novel by [[Literature/AgentPendergast Douglas Preston]] first published in 2003.

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''Tyrannosaur Canyon'' is a novel by [[Literature/AgentPendergast Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child]] first published in 2003.

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