About The Book

THE STORY

In 1984, journalist Doug Williams is assigned to report on  The Ancestors Exhibition, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. There he sees a fossil skull that looks remarkably like one he discovered as a schoolboy, decades earlier, in a hidden cave in Zimbabwe.

Doug decides to return to Plumtree School determined to find the skull and exhume the remaining skeletal bones of his extraordinary discovery, known as Mr Plum.

To examine the fossil evidence, Doug is joined by Dr Kay Tanenbaum, an intelligent and accomplished paleoanthropologist and, Prof. Clive Hammond a distinguished academic and human evolution sceptic. The combined expertise could determine whether Mr Plum is merely an intriguing fossil or something capable of challenging accepted theories of human evolution.

Doug soon becomes entangled in the mysterious fate of his former science teacher, Mr Howard, whose obsession with Mr Plum ended in tragedy. As they follow the clues, they uncover a shadowy world of political intrigue, covert intelligence, scientific controversy and concealed evidence.

If the fossil is authentic and its implications are understood, it could challenge established theories about human evolution, prehistoric humanity and the origins of mankind.

And as the danger surrounding their investigation grows, so does the unexpected attraction between Doug and Kay. But neither can afford to lose sight of the truth.

THE AUTHOR

author -brief biography

Norman Clements has been a journalist, photographer, media analyst and commentator for forty years. Born in Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, and educated in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), he was editorial director of a large publishing company in Zimbabwe, founding editor of Africa Today in South Africa and later London editor for the same South African publishing group.

After launching and running a prominent Public Relations company in South Africa, he had a seven-year tenure in London and Chicago as a senior vice president of an international media intelligence company. He went on to establish a media intelligence company in South Africa with his son. He has one son and two daughters from his deceased wife and now lives in Hastings in the UK.