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Author: Philip Kerr

Weak book that is almost identical in concept to Neanderthal by John Darton published in the U.S. the same year as this book. The premise is the oh-so-original concept that the Yeti (the Abominable Snowman) is the Missing Link and so a bunch of scientists go seeing to capture a Yeti for study and help prove evolution. Of course that’s not exciting enough, so Kerr throws in an off-the-wall spy plot in which a CIA agent is hidden among the team with a secret mission, except that after he’s on the mission the CIA discover that oops, someone mislaid his psychological profile and the guy’s certifiable. There’s lots of “fun” climbing accidents, avalanches, scary Yeti encounters, etc., and Kerr has definitely done his homework for the book’s practically over-researched, with minute detail about the most trivial things (which slows down the pace of the book). Plotwise Kerr’s most annoying habit (a mistake he also made in