The Kodiak Books
Lee’s suspense-filled adventure series follows the danger-fraught exploits of cryptozoologist George Kodiak, as he traverses the globe researching animal anomalies such as the Sasquatch and the Loch Ness Monster. Based upon years of scientific research and personal exploration, this series takes the subject of cryptozoology and attempts to go deeper than the usual “monster on the loose” or “young, misunderstood child befriends large, misunderstood, anthropomorphic creature” type stories.
“I try to get across what these animals might really be, often by basing them upon known species which are believed extinct, but known from the fossil record. Even though the stories are fiction, I try to give the reader a feeling of having really seen these animals, touched them, discovered something about them for themselves so that they may even decide to go an explore the many non-fiction books available.”
Future books in the series will include such animals as the Chupacabras, and Mokele mbembe, the living dinosaur of darkest Africa. While George Kodiak’s specialization is cryptozoology, deal with many of Lee’s paranormal interests such as ghosts and UFOs.
WHERE LEGENDS ROAM (Defining Moments, 2000)
The hunt for the elusive Sasquatch of the Pacific Northwest goes full-speed when Kodiak is hired by billionaire Emory Pittman to capture a specimen of this rare animal for his private zoo on his northern Arizona estate. Equipped and funded for an extensive expedition, Kodiak and six others journey to Washington State’s Olympic National Forest where they quickly discover a juvenile Sasquatch has been making repeat visitations to an isolated cabin inhabited by a single old woman. The decision is made to capture the animal, which eludes them and the pursuit brings everyone into the deep forest, where things rapidly fall apart.
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NAITAKA (Defining Moments, 2002)
Two years after WHERE LEGENDS ROAM, Kodiak teams up with marine biologist Rocky Labanowski and his daughter Erica for and expedition to British Columbia’s Lake Okanagan, reputed home of an aquatic monster called Naitaka by First Nations peoples who have known of the animal for more than two hundred years. Kodiak’s team is not alone in their search for the mysterious denizens of the lake. Jules Dover, an internationally famous television show host and spokesman for the Aronov Marine Aquarium in California also has designs on identifying the creatures in the lake, and bringing a specimen back to California dead or alive at any cost. Then there is Hilary Fischer, a deadly enemy of Kodiak’s from his days as an agent for the Department of Fish and Wildlife. Fischer learns of Kodiak’s involvement in the expedition and moves in for the kill…
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HERETOFORE: UNKNOWN (Defining Moments, 2007)
Honey Island Swamp, Louisiana. A haven for all sorts of life forms, up to and including man. Honey Island also hold a mystery, a creature bi-pedal in form and similar in stature to a large man. But the similarities end there. What has been described by witnesses as an aggressive, fur-covered beast with double rows of teeth and claws like a bear could not possibly be real, until police gun one of the creatures down where it has been kept inside a dead Voodoo priestess’ family mausoleum. George Kodiak arrives in Louisiana to perform a necropsy on the animal and determine an identity for it. The only thing he is able to determine from the carcass is what it is not. In his effort to understand what the creature is, as well as why it was being held captive inside the mausoleum, Kodiak becomes entangled in the world of Louisiana Voodoo at the risk of losing his sanity… and his life
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