A painfully shy old man has approached Professors Gadling, Gauntraker
and Ampersand with an extraordinary archeological find: early human
remains that don't fit in with anything known to science. Soon, Sam,
Zara, Ben, Marcia and Adam are joining the professors on an expedition
to a remote island in South-East Asia to investigate further. But the
island contains a secret more astonishing than anything they could have
imagined, and a dangerous, deadly enemy is on the trail...
John Fardell works as a freelance cartoonist, illustrator, designer and puppeteer. A regular contributor to Viz (he is the creator of The Modern Parents and The Critics amongst others), his work has also appeared in the Independent, the Evening Standard, the New Statesman, the Glasgow Herald and The List. He is married with two boys and lives in Edinburgh.
