Sons of the Morning is DeWitt Copp s most

complex and fascinating novel to date. Fifty

years ago a team of scientists hunting fossils

camped out by a Canadian wilderness lake.

They vanished, leaving only remains of the

camp and the diary of their leader, Dowd, with

its strange, indecipherable diagram.

In subsequent years Dowd s mysterious doc-

ument drew the huntcrs; Montour, the bush

pilot, stole it, ccrtain it would bring him the

freedom he so fiercely sought. Jason, the Brit-

ish SOE agent on the run, killed for it, believ

ing he had seen its duplicatc in France. Von

Werbcl, the crazed German genius, plotted to

use its markings to bring about mass destruc-

tion. The invidious Stanhope, of the Ashdon

Foundation, kept the diary secret against thc

day it would make him famous. Now it is

Dowd s haunted daughter, Kate, who flies to

the deadly lake to find what Dowd s diary de-

scribed as "a discovcry like no other" and, in

doing so, uncovers the real meaning of evil.