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Monster
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Monster (2005) (edit title/settings)

by Frank Peretti (Author) (edit contributors)

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Frank Peretti is at the top of his game in this New York Times best-selling novel of "survival of the fittest." Nothing is as it first appears in this thriller where things that go bump in the night are only a heartbeat away.

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  • Reed Shelton: A deputy sheriff; looking for his wife who was abducted by a Sasquatch-like creature on a camping trip
  • Beck Shelton: Reed's wife; has a stuttering problem; is taken by sasquatch-like creatures
  • Rachel: Red-headed creature named by Beck after the biblical Jacob's wife who could not have a child. Rachel treats Beck as a daughter.
  • Leah: Gray creature named by Beck after the biblical tale
  • Jacob: alpha-male creature; disapproves of Beck but tolerates her.
  • Reuben: young, gray-haired creature; son of Leah
  • Sing: crime-scene photographer; also good friends with Beck and Reed; Cap's wife
  • Cap: Went on sabbatical from his job at a university; Sing's husband
  • Adam Burkhardt: Scientist given university funding to experiment with chimpanzees
  • Merrill: Department head who looks upon Cap with disdain
  • Sam Marlowe: Involved in hunting / search party
  • Steve Thorne: Involved in hunting / search party
  • Jimmy: Leader of hunting party; skeptical about the beast
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Woods in a rural area

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The Hunter, rifle in his hands, dug in a heel and came to a sudden halt on the game trail, motionless, nearly invisible in a thicket of serviceberry and crowded pines.

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  1. Frank Peretti (Author)

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Original Language: English
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Publication Date: April 12, 2005
ISBN: 978-0849911804
Page Count: 464

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