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is a Bigfoot book that blends fact and fiction very well, It brings a new element to the story by dropping the Lewis and Clark expedition and playing with that, It is very well written and brilliantly done, A lot of research and outdoor experience went into this novel, So did a lot of good storytelling, This is a very good introductory novel from a young writer who should keep at it, Fantastic page turner!! love the flow of the writing and the story and would love to see it continued ! if you want suspense and a thrilling read then this is the book for you ! Cryptid: n.
subject of Cryptozoological scrutiny animals of unexplained form or size, or unexpected occurrence in time or space,

Opening with the alleged suicide of Meriwether Lewis, Cryptid takes the reader two hundred years into the past in order to set the stage for a pageturning, conspiracy theory thriller.
The circumstances around Lewis death, and the missing journals from the Lewis and Clark expedition, have enough unanswered questions to keep the speculation flying, and author Penz uses this to great advantage.


It doesnt take long for Penz to move his story into the present time and almost immediately after that he introduces the key player, Gigantopithecus, Long known to be extinct, fossilized remnants of this Giant Ape are concentrated mainly in China, where the natives grind them up to use in various healthgiving potions.


Paleontologist Samantha Russell has spent

her career seeking the truth about Gigantopithecus, excavating tiny fossilized bits and pieces out of the ground, When a packing crate arrives at her dig site only moments before Chinese government officials escort her out of the country, she barely has time to register that the specimens inside the box are bone, not stone.
This discovery prompts her to seek out the sender, cryptozoologist Dr, Jon Ostman, a man virtually excommunicated from the scientific community for his interest in subjects such as the American Sasquatch,

A specimen so recently deceased would be a gold mine and a feather in the cap of whomever published the proof, It would also be an environmental nightmare for the forestry industry, as logging would have to be stopped in the fertile Olympic forests of Washington while an impact study is done.
Herein lies the controversy: Big Business and the US Government are teaming up to stop the scientists while other private industries attempt to push forth the exact same discovery.


The story brilliantly balances between scientific theory and heartpounding thrill, Cryptid mingles science fact with history into a story that equals the best historical mysteries, Some of the best and most plausible information is entirely fictitious, but is handed out in such a manner that the reader will ingest it just as easily as the real thing.


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Something haunts the woods of Olympic National Park, a nightmare in hiding, Its existence has been kept secret by a conspiracy that stretches back to President Thomas Jefferson and the Lewis amp Clark expedition, The truth that we have not been alone on this earth would have forever been lost except that some species just wont die,

Dr. Samantha Russell has spent her career seeking for truth in the only way she knows how, on her hands and knees, painstakingly digging it up from the crust of the earth.
When the truth arrives by way of FedEx, she cannot help but see it as nothing more than another scientific hoax, especially considering the source, Dr. Jon Ostman has practically been excommunicated by the scientific community for his interest in such subjects as the American Sasquatch,

Suffering from her father's tragic sense of curiosity, though, Sam can't resist the question begged by the bones contained in the wooden crate, How could they be bones and not fossils since Gigantopithecus had been extinct for,years

Driven to know the answer, Sam delays going to her father on his deathbed and instead pursues Jon to a remote corner of Washington state where he is about to make the greatest discovery involving the origins of the human species, a discovery Lewis and Clark may have already made two hundred years earlier.
However, Sam is not the only one pursuing Jon, for one of our nation's first secrets is still being kept by all means necessary,

And if they do survive the centuriesold conspiracy, they will not only rewrite American history, but they will prove that we are not the only intelligent, bipedal primate to survive extinction.


Buy now on Amazon amazon. com/CryptidLostLe Somehow I stumbled across this author's web site and got excited because he lived nearby, worked full time and had still managed to get something written and published.
More dots connected because I had recently read er, listened to a history of Lewis and Clark and was also starting to work on a novel revolving around a fictional creature and a coverup.
Thankfully, Cryptid is both completely different than what I have in mind and proves that the concept can work,

The early chapters of the book worked the best for me, They draw vivid pictures of convincing characters in dire situations and create a fascinating world of paleontology, anthropology and history in which the creature bigfoot can exist, along with the coverup.
But then the story bogs down even as the pace picks up, The middle of the book, filled with thrilling scenes, turns into a muddle a seemingly endless chase through the dark underground and in the forest, filled with nasty people, malevolent beasts and a rising body count.
This was not at all what I expected or wanted, And then the end wraps it all up just like that,

That being said, I found the book hard to put down, The prose is clear and compelling, The dialog is true. Events follow each other pretty logically though I did find I lost track of a few things, I hope my story turns out at least this well, There's potential in this book, but it's a little too long and not quite refined, The second half is better as it has a kind of Jurassic Park vibe, Fun, but not really something to rush out to read I thoroughly enjoyed this book, It provides a good mix of science, nature, lore and adventure, The setting appealed to me as I grew up in the rain shadow of the Olympic Mountains and trekked the wet trails of the National Forest, The story has the right mix of "this could happen" and "this never happened", I liked that. This was the author's first rodeo he will return and only get better, He clearly knows the outdoors, has a background in science and does his homework, I look forward to reading his next novel, This book is AWESOME! I came across a copy at a used bookstore and ended up getting the Audible version as well,

First the complaint: The Audible version is pretty dry, No fault of the author, the reader needs to invoke a little emotion into his voice,

Now the compliments: Wow! Where to start Bringing Lewis and Clark into the mix, adding the section about them and Thomas Jefferson was sheer brilliance! The play on psychology, the ability not to believe what is before your own eyes, the psychological choice to ignore facts plays very well in this book.
This book is essentially a Bigfoot hunt, The strength of this book is the plausibility of the situation, Penz is full of surprises, He is detailed in his descriptions, he plays with your mind in the forests, and he offers some pretty plausible answers to the Bigfoot question, I'm not saying that this book is nonfiction, but wouldn't it be interesting if inyears we found that he was closer to the mark than anyone guessed Could this book be to Bigfoot what Futility was to the Titanic Only time will tell.


Eric Penz is the author of the award winning novel, Cryptid: The Lost Legacy of Lewis Clark and the novella, Courage Between, He earned his bachelor of science degree in environmental biology from Eastern Washington University in, His postgraduate work was done at the University of Washington where he completed a two year literary program in commercial fiction, He is also an alumni of The Film School, Inhe sold his insurance agency to begin a financial advisor practice and focus on his writing, He and his family live in the great Pacific Northwest where he can cycle, mountain climb, and ski all in the same day, He is currently at work on a short film version of Cryptid and a new trilogy, Secret Combinations, .