Plot Summary
Six years after the disaster at Jurassic Park, Ian Malcolm - who is revealed to have actually survived the events of the previous novel via a retcon - teams up with paleontologist Richard Levine after learning about Site B, the "production facility" where the park's dinosaurs were hatched and grown, on Isla Sorna near Isla Nublar (the Jurassic Park site). When Levine leaves without Malcolm, he plans a rescue, with a team consisting of Doc Thorne, Eddie Carr, and two stowaway children, R.B. "Arby" Benton and Kelly Curtis.
Simultaneously, another group - geneticist Lewis Dodgson, Howard King and George Baselton - also go to Sorna, with plans to steal dinosaur eggs for Biosyn, the rival company of InGen, the Jurassic Park company. On the way to the island, Sarah Harding, animal behaviorist who has worked in the African savanna, is on her way to meet up with Dr. Thorne and Malcolm when she encounters Dodgson and his party. Dodgson at first dismisses Sarah until she reveals she is trying to make her way to Isla Sorna. He then offers to take her but just before they reach the island, Dodgson throws Harding off the boat and leaves her for dead, she is then rescued by Malcolm's group. The entire rogue group are killed by dinosaurs on the island.
The group finds Levine alive and well, but bitten. A velociraptor attack leaves Eddie dead and Malcolm is injured by the Tyrannosaurus Rex parents looking for their baby. Malcolm then spends much of the novel high on morphine, leaving him prone to talk at length about the evolution on Isla Sorna, whose raptors are antisocial compared to Isla Nublar's raptors. He finds out that InGen fed its dinosaurs sheep infected with prion disease, which makes the dinosaurs' life spans shorter than normal. The disease passes to animals bitten by them, leading to an eventual extinction of the Site B dinosaurs. Kelly discovers a boat in an abandoned building and the group escapes the island. On the boat, Malcolm tells Levine about the prion disease, which was spread island wide by the scavenger procompsognathus species, but tells Levine his bites are fine and the disease would only infect dinosaurs.
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