The Tusks of Extinction

Ray Nayler

Jan 2024 · Spotify Audiobooks · Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki and Gabrielle de Cuir

About this audiobook

When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA.

Moscow has resurrected the mammoth, but someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out, again.

The late Dr. Damira Khismatullina, the world’s foremost expert in elephant behavior, is called in to help. While she was murdered a year ago, her digitized consciousness is uploaded into the brain of a mammoth.

Can she help the magnificent creatures fend off poachers long enough for their species to take hold?

And will she ever discover the real reason they were brought back?

A tense eco-thriller from a new master of the genre.

Ratings and reviews

This philosophically engaging novella made me think about how far I would go to protect those I love. Although it is violent, even gory at times, it ends on a hopeful note that has a nice symmetry with the opening scene. I loved the premise of a dead scientist’s consciousness being transferred to the body of a genetically recreated mammoth so that she could teach the herd how to live as wild mammoths. The nonlinear narrative was confusing at times, so you have to pay close attention.