"Flores Girl: The Children God Forgot" Podcast Adventure Novel Available Now for Free at Podiobooks.com

An adventure novel written by Erik John Bertel is now available as a free podcast at Podiobooks.com. The scientists were shocked at the startling fossil discovery: three-foot tall adult human ancestors that inhabited Flores Island only 16,000 year ago! The media ran story after story, including a 60 Minutes segment, about the amazing hobbit find in Indonesia and their recent extinction in Flores. However, the scientists are dead wrong! These archaic people are still alive today and they will be unwittingly introduced by two American researchers to the cruelest of all modern-day predators: humanity!

These three-foot tall humans are not the Hobbits of the JRR Tolkien’s stories, but a small tribe of prehistoric people, Homo Floresiensis, living in seeming isolation for nearly a half million years on the Indonesian tropical paradise of Irmã Flores. In their unrelenting quest for knowledge, Sarah and Richard unintentionally expose these innocents to the onslaught of the modern world including corporate profiteers, ardent religious zealots, and to the pirates of the Flores Sea. In the process of discovering and befriending these ancient people, Sarah and Richard must survive a clash of very divergent egos while reawakening their own fragile humanity and suppressed desire for love.

Warning, this adventure novel contains adult themes, language, humor, a little romance, a strong dose of graphic violence, and a complete disdain for most authority figures. The author narrates the podcast, with an accompanying music soundtrack. For more information about the author and book, you can visit www.floresgirl.com.

Headlines and television documentaries announce the finding of Flores Island hobbits

From the headlines of today’s newspapers comes the ultimate adventure story of discovery. Two scientists unwittingly introduce a small tribe of prehistoric people living in isolation for a half million years to the ultimate modern predator: humanity. This is their adventure combining a clash of cultures, religious ardor with the oldest stories of all: the meaning of friendship and love.

In summary, this as a rousing adventure book with serious undertones about our very definition of humanity, and how we treat the other sentient creatures that occupy our small planet. What is at the core of being human, and how are we systematically destroying those very same qualities that we hold so dear?

The media ran article after article, including a segment on 60 Minutes, about the startling hobbit fossil find on Flores Island in Indonesia. The 16,000-year-old fossils were distant ancestors to humans that seemingly went extinct just a few short years ago. The scientists are dead wrong! These people are still alive today and they will be unwittingly introduced by two American researchers to the nastiest modern-day predator: humanity.

Many elements within the novel have a strong connection with the topical issues of today ranging from Creationism, stem cell research and finally to the greed of our consumer economy. Moreover, the so-called Hobbit people described within the novel, locally known by Flores natives as the Ebu Gogo, are being searched for by scientists in Indonesia as we speak. This story is so gripping that “Sixty Minutes” on CBS and National Geographic ran a special on the Flores Island fossil find.