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"It&039;s almost finished now, you know," Hammond said "I&039;ve sent you soet my material?"

"No, but we&039;re pretty far from-"

"Maybe it&039;ll come today Look it over The island&039;s just beautiful It&039;s got everything We&039;ve been in construction now thirtypark Opens in Septeo see it

"It sounds wonderful, but-"

"As ato insist you see it, Dr Grant I know you&039;d find it right up your alley You&039;d find it fascinating"

"I&039;m in the middle of-" Grant said

"Say, I&039;ll tell you what," Hammond said, as if the idea had just occurred to hio down there this weekend Spend a few days and look it over At our expense, of course It&039;d be terrific if you&039;d give us your opinion"

"I couldn&039;t possibly," Grant said

"Oh, just for a weekend," Ha, cheery persistence of an oldabout, Dr Grant I wouldn&039;t want to interrupt your work I kno important that work is Believe me, I know that Never interrupt your work But you could hop on down there this weekend, and be back on Monday"

"No, I couldn&039;t," Grant said "I&039;ve just found a new skeleton and-"

"Yes, fine, but I still think you should co

"And we&039;ve just received so and renathid"

"A what?" Haet that You said a living proconathid?"

"That&039;s right," Grant said "It&039;s a biological speci animal"

"You don&039;t say," Ha animal? How extraordinary"

"Yes," Grant said "We think so, too So, you see, this isn&039;t the ti-"

"Central America, did you say?"

"Yes"

"Where in Central America is it from, do you know?"

"A beach called Cabo Blanco, I don&039;t know exactly where-"

"I see" Hammond cleared his throat, "And when did this, ah, specimen arrive in your hands?"

"Just today"

"Today, I see Today I see Yes" Haain

Grant looked at Ellie andon?

Ellie shook her head Sounds upset

Grant mouthed, See if Morris is still here

She went to theand looked out, but Morris&039;s car was gone She turned back

On the speaker, Hahed "Ah, Dr Grant Have you told anybody about it yet?"

"No"

"Good, that&039;s good Well Yes I&039;ll tell you frankly, Dr Grant, I&039; is co time"

"How&039;s that?" Grant said

"Well, we&039;ve had our problems and some delaysLet&039;s just say that I&039;m under a little pressure here, and I&039;d like you to look at this island foryou the usual weekend consultant rate of twenty thousand a day That&039;d be sixty thousand for three days And if you can spare Dr Sattler, she&039;ll go at the same rate We need a botanist What do you say?"

Ellie looked at Grant as he said, "Well, Mr Hammond, that much money would fully finance our expeditions for the next two suood," Hahts elsewhere "I want this to be easyNow, I&039; the corporate jet to pick you up at that private airfield cast of Choteau You know the one I mean? It&039;s only about two hours&039; drive from where you are You be there at five pht down Can you and Dr Sattler uess we can"

"Good Pack lightly You don&039;t need passports I&039; forward to it See you to up

Cowan, Swain and Ross

Midday sun streamed into the San Francisco law offices of Cowan, Swain and Ross, giving the room a cheerfulness that Donald Gennaro did not feel He listened on the phone and looked at his boss, Daniel Ross, cold as an undertaker in his dark pinstripe suit

"I understand, John," Gennaro said "And Grant agreed to coratulations, John" He hung up the phone and turned to Ross

"We can&039;t trust Hammond any more He&039;s under toohim, he&039;s behind schedule on his Costa Rican resort, and the investors are getting nervous There have been too many rumors of problems down there Tooprocompsit-whatever on the mainland"

"What does that mean?" Ross said

"Maybe nothing," Gennaro said "But Haot a report last week from Hamachi&039;s representative in San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica According to the report, so children on the coast"

Ross blinked "New lizard?"

"Yes," Gennaro said "We can&039;t screw around with this We&039;ve got to inspect that island right away I&039;ve asked Hae independent site inspections every week for the next three weeks"

"And what does Hammond say?"

"He insists nothing is wrong on the island Claims he has all these security precautions"

"But you don&039;t believe him," Ross said

"No," Gennaro said "I don&039;t"

Donald Gennaro had co Cowan, Swain&039;s high-tech clients frequently needed capitalization, and Gennaro helped thenments, back in 1982, had been to accompany John Haether the funding to start the InGen corporation They eventually raised almost a billion dollars, and Gcnnaro remembered it as a wild ride

"Hammond&039;s a dreamer," Gennaro said

"A potentially dangerous dreaotten involved What is our financial position?"

"The firm," Gennaro said, "owns five percent"

"General or limited?"

"General"

Ross shook his head "We should never have done that"

"It seeht years ago We took it in lieu of some fees And, if you remember, Hammond&039;s plan was extre the envelope Nobody really thought he could pull it off"

"But apparently he has," Ross said "In any case, I agree that an inspection is overdue What about your site experts?"

"I&039; with experts Hammond already hired as consultants, early in the project" Gennaro tossed a list onto Ross&039;s desk "First group is a paleontologist, a paleobotanist, and a o with them"

"Will they tell you the truth?" Ross said

"I think so None of them had much to do with the island, and one of them-the mathematician, Ian Malcolm-was openly hostile to the project from the start Insisted it would never work, could never work"

"And who else?"

"Just a technical person: the computer systes He should be there by Friday "

Fine," Ross said "You&039;re ements?"

"Hammond asked to place the calls himself I think he wants to pretend that he&039;s not in trouble, that it&039;s just a social invitation Showing off his island"

"All right," Ross said "But just make sure it happens Stay on top of it I want this Costa Rican situation resolved within a week" Ross got up, and walked out of the room

Gennaro dialed, heard the whining hiss of a radiophone Then he heard a voice say, "Grant here"

"Hi, Dr Grant, this is Donald Gennaro I&039;eneral counsel for InGen We talked a few years back, I don&039;t know if you remember-"

"I remember," Grant said

"Well," Gennaro said "I just got off the phone with John Ha down to our island in Costa Rica"

"Yes," Grant said "I guess we&039;re going down there tomorrow"

"Well, I just want to extendthis on short notice Everybody at InGen appreciates it We&039;ve asked fan Malcolm, who like you was one of the early consultants, to come down as well He&039;s the mathematician at UT in Austin?"

"John Hammond mentioned that," Grant said

"Well, good," Gennaro said "And I&039;ll be co, too, as a matter of fact By the way, this specimen you have found of a proprocomwhat is it?"

"Proconathus," Grant said

"Yes Do you have the specimen with you, Dr Grant? The actual specimen?"

"No," Grant said "I&039;ve only seen an X-ray The specimen is in New York A woman from Columbia University called me"

"Well, I wonder if you could give me the details on that," Gennaro said "Then I can run down that specimen for Mr Hammond, who&039;s very excited about it I&039;m sure you want to see the actual speciet it delivered to the island while you&039;re all down there," Gennaro said

Grant gave him the information "Well, that&039;s fine, Dr Grant," Gennaro said "My regards to Dr Sattler I look forward toup

Plans

"This just ca to the back of the trailer with a thick ht it back from town It&039;s from Hammond"

Grant noticed the blue-and-white InGen logo as he tore open the envelope Inside there was no cover letter, just a bound stack of paper Pulling it out, he discovered it was blueprints They were reduced, for a thick book The cover was marked: ISLA NUBLAR RESORT GUEST FACILITIES (FULL SET: SAFARI LODGE)

"What the hell is this?" he said

As he flipped open the book, a sheet of paper fell out

Dear Alan and Ellie:

As you can iine we don&039;t have much in the way of forive you some idea of the Isla Nublar project I think it&039;s Very exciting!

Looking forward to discussing this with you! Hope you can join us!

Regards,

John

"I don&039;t get it," Grant said He flipped through the sheets "These are architectural plans" He turned to the top sheet:

VISITOR CENTER/LODGE ISLA NUBLAR RESORT

CLIENT InGen Inc, Palo Alto, Calif

ARCHITECTS Dunning, Murphy & Associates, New

York Richard Murphy, design partner;

Theodore Chen, senior designer;

Sheldon James, administrative partner

ENGINEERS Harlow, Whitney & Fields, Boston,

structural; ATMisikawa, Osaka,

mechanical

LANDSCAPING Shepperton Rogers, London;

AAshikiga, H Ieyasu, Kanazawa