Altar of Eden

After the most violent hurricane, the border service found a wrecked trawler in the Mississippi delta. But here’s the strange part: there isn’t a single person from the crew on board, while in the hold border guards discover an amazing cargo— a parrot in a cage that can calculate the number of “pi,” a cub of a saber-toothed jaguar, a python with limbs, and many other unbelievable animals, as if they had somehow appeared in our time from prehistoric epochs. To sort out this find, a specialist scientist from New Orleans is invited onto the ship. Lorna Polk hasn’t even started her research when strange and terrible things begin to happen on the trawler and around it…