Humans first displayed signs of advanced intelligence 70,000 years ago, but recorded history only began in 3,000 BC. For 65,000 years our species wandered the Earth and left barely a trace. In her quest to discover echoes of the first human language, a young archaeologist disappears without trace in the Congo basin. Professor Randolph Harkness goes in search of her only to uncover a conspiracy to conceal ancient horrors lost to the passage of time. Assisted by troubled tearaway, Ross McCartney, Harkness must face-off against spies and trained killers who would keep this secret buried deep in the past. With myth, archaeology and hard science as his searchlight, Harkness illuminates the obscurity of prehistory - but what awaits him at the end of this harrowing journey into the origin of man'
The Sapien Paradox is a page-turning, heart-racing thriller that propels us across Equatorial Africa, central Asia and Poland in the search of what it means to be human. With a father-son relationship at the heart of this character-driven, action-packed novel, Harkness and McCartney reveal the story of our species, the paradox of the modern mind and our natural predilection for murder.
