Rob D. reviewed on 10/4/2009 + 29 more book reviews

This is a pseudoscience thriller in which a family group of bigfoots (bigfeet?) aren't even the title characters. It was sufficiently engaging that I finished it, but the so-called science was preposterous. It's not uncommon to push the envelope scientifically in books in this genre, but in this case the author has a clear agenda. He is a self-identified "Christian author", and credits a visit with Discovery Institute's Jonathan Wells for helping refine his ideas. Wells is a widely discredited creationist who has tried to use unconvincing pseudoscience to attack evolution. The agenda of the author takes about a half book to emerge, but then we learn that one of the principal protagonists has been fired from a university for anti-evolutionary views. Then it turns out that the major bad guy is an evolutionist who have combined DNA from chimps and people to generate many unfortunate mistakes and eventually a monster, which he tries to hide by murder of those in a position to learn of his secret. The rationale of why anyone would choose to pursue such a tactic is ridiculous, and the explanation of the science involved bogus. At least it has a happy ending; the bad guy loses and the creationist is welcomed back to the university - right! If you like this kind of book, I would recommend Douglas Preston solo or with Lincoln Child instead.

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