All Myths Are True: Pretty much every cryptid is implied to exist, but Dr.Abusive Parents: While he did love his daughter, Noah was said to be far too controlling of his daughter which led her to elope with Wolfe.Advertised Extra: The chupacabra only becomes a major player during the final act of its eponymous book, and the bigger threat will always be Noah.Marty can make an extensive Middle Eastern dinner out of common kitchen ingredients at the age of 13, Ted is the modern age's da Vinci, the list goes on. The Ace: A requirement for being a major character, it seems.After the first book, characters from the Jacob Lansa trilogy and Sasquatch join the cast. Now the two must survive the Congo, Wolfe must rescue his niece and nephew, and the mystery involving the war between Wolfe and Noah Blackwood, renowned wildlife tycoon, begins to come to light. Thanks to a mishap involving a chimpanzee, a miniature poodle, and the twins' own desire to find their parents, they are stranded in the jungles of the Congo.

However, Wolfe ends up mounting an expedition to find the twins' parents himself, and plans to return them to their boarding school. The two discover that their uncle is in fact a cryptozoologist, dedicated to finding the mysterious beasts of the world such as the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, and other oddities. Travis Wolfe, an anthropologist based on Cryptos Island. When their parents cannot be found, Marty and Grace are sent to live with their mysterious uncle Dr. It is also a continuation of the three-part Jacob Lansa series, consisting of Thunder Cave (1997), Jaguar (1999) and The Last Lobo (2001), and the book Sasquatch (1998), set at the same time as Jaguar.Īt its heart are twins Marty and Grace O'Hara, children of two photojournalists who go missing in the South American jungle. Cryptid Hunters is a four-part series of young-adult fiction written by Roland Smith, beginning with the original book published in 2005 and followed by Tentacles (2009), Chupacabra (2013) and Mutation (2014).

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