Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1020134 in Books
• Published on: 2000-12
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 205 pages

About the Author
Lee Murphy is a former model maker for the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. He has since free-lanced, specializing in life-size replicas of living and prehistoric beasts.

He has spent a decade researching material on the subject of cryptozoology-- the scientific study of hidden and unknown animals-- by the foremost authorities on that subject. This novel is the outcome of his quest.

Customer Reviews

Kodiak arrest
Where to begin... in a nutshell, this is just an average book with average characters and a not-so-heroic hero. George Kodiak is more of an anti-hero, he's violent and has social issues. The romantic interest between Kodiak and Cyrena is poor and is reminiscent of an elementary school crush on Cyrena's part, Kodiak could care less. The 'bad guys' Norm, Dave, and Montagna are over the top with Dave's obsessing of raping Cyrena, Norm's hygiene, and Montagna's greed and his implied government involvment is lackluster. The money man behind the whole hunt is simply so far fetched it is completely unbelievable what with his zoo and all. The only truly decent characters are Mrs. Hunnicutt, her development and involvement with the bigfoots was more interesting than the Bigfoot Hunter's group of the above mentioned characters. The most intriguing character is Ruth and there is a hint of a good possible story behind her origins but the author doesn't pursue the hints Montagna talks about earlier in the book.

Murphy begins laying out a possible decent story with the Hunnicutt character but then turns his focus on showing how despicable a person can be when he begins to push the bad-guys storyline. After this point, Murphy turns the book into a B-rated movie plot. There's no real speculation or development for the sasquatch, he makes them very uninteresting. The beneficial point he makes is that they are just animals with animal instincts and some higher brain functions, not horror monsters out to kill.

As a story, it's certainly readable and holds your interest enough to get through it. "The Kodiak books" will easily fall into a routine mystery formula that is so common throughout the literary mystery genre.

A exciting journey for the capture of bigfoot
I have an interest in unknown animals like bigfoot and the lochness monster, and was very impressed how Mr. Murphy took on this subject. First when I read the foward by Dr. Mackal I had a feeling that there was promise in the story. I like the way Murphy described Bigfoot as a real animal not the typical tabloid garbage where Bigfoot is a space alien or a blood thirsty monster that goes around killing people. Murphy seems to have a great knowledge on the subject of Bigfoot and bases the animal on what some scientist believe this animal to be. The action and characters in this story are non-stop. You think things are calm and something or someone comes out of left field and throws you for a loop. I enjoyed this book fully and look foward to future novels featuring George Kodiak. It's nice to see a good action adventure novel on this subject taken seriously.

Gigantopithecus....If you can pronounce this, a must read!
Okay, even if you can't pronounce Gigantopithecus you will have no problem relating to the Big Foot Legend. Where Legends Roam kept me intrigued with it's fast paced storyline. Mr. Murphy's character descriptions were quite easy to imagine. In fact, one of his bad characters, in particular, gave me the creeps for weeks after finishing the book.

Because of man's inevitable, curious, destructive behavior, I hope that The Sasquotch theory remains a mystery, as this story could quiclkly become a reality. In that case we would need to wish for our Kodiak hero to truly exist.