Project Mastodon

Hudson walks into Washington with a claim so outrageous it sounds like a joke: Mastodonia is a real, independent nation, complete with rights to recognition, trade, and sanctuary. Officials laugh him off until film of prehistoric beasts, hidden evidence, and quiet interest from multiple branches of government suggest that something impossible may be happening. Behind the satire of bureaucracy and diplomacy lies a far stranger truth: three men may have carried a nation into the Pleistocene. Adams, Cooper, and Hudson have claimed a continent in the prehistoric past, where mastodons, saber-tooths, wild horses, and open fires define daily life. Stranded with a helicopter, a time machine, and almost no support, they argue over survival, secrecy, and the dream of turning deep time into profit or a new civilization. Their ambitions collide with practical disaster when a rampaging mastodon destroys their only way home. Years later, a hard-driving general presses the government to believe the men are still there, while foreign powers, the White House, and wary officials realize Project Mastodon could alter history, security, and the future itself. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.