Easton Press, Charles Pellegrino "Dust" Signed First Edition, Leather Bound Collector's Edition w/COA

• Frontispiece by Debbie Hughe
• Introduction by Jack McDevitt

As the earth approaches an extinction cycle, insects start dying out, crops fail, and disease spreads rapidly around the globe. Scientist Richard Sinclair thinks that he can stave off the end of humanity by replacing insects using fossils locked in amber from the age of the dinosaurs. In a race against time and the elements, Richard is humanity's last hope for survival.

Publisher's Note: The change begins silently, imperceptibly, inexorably. One natural effect topples into the next, like an array of dominoes that stretches to every corner of the globe. Before anyone realizes it, the earth's ecology has utterly transformed itself. And the days of the old world are finished. In an idyllic Long Island community, paleobiologist Richard Sinclair is one of the first to suspect that the environment has begun to wage bloody, terrifying war on humanity. What initially appear to be random, unrelated events are, in actuality, violent eruptions in a worldwide biological chain reaction. Along with a brave group of survivors, Sinclair must learn to understand the catastrophe while it roils around them, slowly crumbling a panicked world and energizing a reactionary fringe that welcomes the apocalypse. The survival of humankind depends on finding an answer immediately - for all else is dust.

About the author

Charles R. Pellegrino is an American writer, and the controversial author of several books relating to science and archaeology, including Return to Sodom and Gomorrah, Ghosts of the Titanic, Unearthing Atlantis and Ghosts of Vesuvius.

One of his recent books (co-authored with Simcha Jacobovici) is The Jesus Family Tomb: The Discovery, the Investigation, and the Evidence That Could Change History (2007), a companion book to the Discovery Channel documentary on the same subject created in part by film director James Cameron.