E.D. Malone, reporter for the Daily Gazette is desperate to make his mark in the world, and to do something heroic. He gets wind that a discredited zoologist, and well-known hothead, is leading a scientific party into a little-explored part of South America. A location that, according to Professor Challenger, has a huge inaccessible plateau ... complete with prehistoric dinosaurs, no less!
Mr. Malone gets the chance to go on the adventure of a lifetime, and to do something heroic. Will he live to write the story of the century?