Cryptid Hunters

By Roland Smith, this book is, from the beginning, packed with enough adventure and exciement to last life time. The main characters, twins by the name of Marty and Grace, are thrown into a whirlwind life when their parents go missing in a helicopter crash and they are sent from their cushy boarding school to their possibly insane uncle who lives on a private island off the coast of Washington. Uncle Wolfe turns out to be a really nice, if busy guy, but when his nemesis Dr. Blackwood, a multibillionaire hunter of types heads to the Congo to poach a dinosaur (the same that killed Wolfes wife), he must leave immediately to try and get to it first. But the twins don't want to leave their newly found interesting uncle and so try to sneak onboard the flight to stay, bu they end up falling from the plane. Very klutzy, but they survive with the help of a parachute and end up treking through the dangerous jungle to try and find a treehouse where Wolfe once lived with his late wife. Blackwoods there now though, so the twins live in the jungle takes a turn from dangerous to definatly lefe threatening as both parties search desperately to find the dinosaur and survive.