<p>'<em>The Diemen Alexander</em> is Jurassic Park meets ET in the best possible way. It's fast paced, thrilling, funny and fantastical. I loved it.' - <em>Alison Goodman</em></p><p><br></p><p>When tender-hearted geeky teenage Luke rescues a lizard in a thunderstorm on kunanyi, he has no idea it will have a mind of its own.</p><p>Or eat quite so much. Or grow so fast.</p><p>Or resemble Tasmania's lost dinosaur.</p><p>Suddenly Alexander the lizard becomes an immensely valuable object, sought by cold-blooded and violent people.</p><p>Luke's brains and compassion won't be enough to protect Alexander - something his anarchic sister Gatta could have told him - not even with help from the fearsome Shona, paleogeologist and AFLW Goddess.</p><p>Meanwhile Alexander - teeth, claws and appetite - is growing, changing and learning to communicate.</p><p>Can Luke find his own ferocity and ruthlessness to counter the odds stacked against them?</p><p>A sci-fi romp through present day Hobart - featuring zoology, comparative anatomy and venture capitalism - that asks deeper questions about human responsibility towards animals, the earth and each other, and the truth that power goes to the person most prepared to wield it.</p><p><em>The Diemen Alexander</em> is an adventure full of narrow escapes and fail-to-escapes, an XH Holden ute, shameful misuse of really excellent whisky, and a distressing amount of fast food.</p><p><br></p>