The Adventure Guys: The Chinese Bear-Cat Rescue

By Glen M. Vogel

The Adventure Guys in theChinese Bear-Cat Rescuerecounts the escapades of Green and Blue, known as the Adventure Guys, on their first mission as they are urgently dispatched to China to rescue the endangered giant pandas (called Bear-Cats by the Chinese) from a band of international poachers hired by the evil Dr. Obnoxious. The Adventure Guys are befriended and guided through their misadventures in the Chinese highlands by Jia-Li, a 10 year old Chinese girl, whose courage and wit helps make their mission a success as they navigate this unique terrain, save the panda, and capture the poachers that were carrying out thediabolical plot of the wicked Dr. Obnoxious, head of the evil organization called Turmoil.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jun 9, 2006
• ISBN: 9781467812481

Glen M. Vogel

Glen M. Vogel is an attorney, environmental engineer, law professor, playwrite, and now children's book author.  He currently resides on Long Island in New York  with his wife and three boys.  He has been recounting the tales of the Adventure Guys to his three boys for years and frequently visits schools on Long Island with his program The Trial of Goldilocks.

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© 2009 Glen M. Vogel. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

First published by AuthorHouse 7/13/2009

ISBN: 978-1-4259-1645-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4678-1248-1 (ebk)

Printed in the United States of America

Bloomington, Indiana

Illustrations by Stephen Adams

Contents

Prologue

One

The Mission

Two

Into the Mist and Fog

Three

A New Companion

Four

Turmoil and Dr. Obnoxious

Five

Ransacked and Kidnapped

Six

Into the Night

Seven

Panda Predator

Eight

The Poachers

Nine

Rescue or Ruin

Ten

Unfinished Business

The Chinese

Bear-Cat Rescue

Prologue

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Andre Norton

The mother Panda and her cub lumbered out of the lush underbrush and into a small clearing on a misty hillside in the mountains of central China. There, lying right in the middle of the clearing was their reward… what they spent the last hour tracking by scent.

It was a small pile of bamboo stalks and leaves. Bamboo was growing more scarce with the approach of winter and the mother panda wanted to make sure both she and her cub were well-fed.

The mother Panda glanced from side-to-side as she made her slow approach into the clearing. She hesitated briefly, stopping to sniff the air. Sensing no danger, she again proceeded forward. Mere steps away from the tasty bamboo leaves her right rear leg was abruptly halted by a tug. The mother Panda shook hear hind leg and tried again to step toward the bamboo leaves. Something was holding her by her rear leg.

When she tugged a second time her leg was abruptly yanked out from under her and she ended up sprawled on her belly.

Oblivious to his mother’s perilous situation, the cub rushed past her, sat, and began nibbling on the bamboo leaves. The mother panda turned and saw a rope tied around her leg.

She was caught in a snare.

In a panic she moaned, swung her leg wildly and wailed for her cub to run. The young cub stopped eating the bamboo and hearing his mother’s struggle he crept toward her for safety.

As the mother panda tried desperately to free her leg, four figures in black entered the clearing. One of the figures, a man, stepped forward, the word TURMOIL was stitched above the brim of his hat. He raised his arm and pointed a gun directly at the mother panda.

He pulled the trigger.

The mother panda gave her