EDWARD JOSEPH BEGEN

"Foosa! Primal Instinct"-ISBN:1-57197-418-0 hard cover 324 pages- Novel 
  On the island of Madagascar, there lives an ancient creature known as the 
fossa("Foosa"-to the locals). Small and ferocious, it is the meanest and 
most 
bloodthirsty animal known to modern man. It has little to do with humans so 
consequently, little is known about it. Many biologists and researchers 
believe the modern fossa's ancient ancester still lives along the island's 
eastern coast in what is known as the impenetrable forest. With Madagascar 
deforestation taking place at an alarming rate, revelation of the truth 
about this creature, once thought to be extinct, is inevitable and imminent. 
Should the giant fossa still prove to exist, the consequences of forced 
human interaction may be disastrous. Edward J. Begen has taken these 
scientific facts and has written a novel that may soon become a 
reality. "Foosa! Primal Instinct" tells the story of Blaine Gibbons, a young 
field researcher working in Madagascar, as he and a team of experts search 
for signs of a murderous creature thought to be extinct... the Giant Fossa.
As the death toll mounts, legend becomes reality. Blaine and his colleagues 
find themselves in a race to find the fossa and end its bloody rampage... a 
creature simply following its instincts, forced into the open because of the 
destruction of its habitat by man and nature. This novel is a thriller that 
mixes fact and fiction with explosive results.   (Order signed copies from 
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