The last thing that quack medicine man Doc Terminus expected to find in the little town of Passamaquoddy (besides a tongue twister) is a real live fire-breathing dragon. He practically salivates at the potential windfall the magical beast could bring him and his phony remedies. But first he has to actually capture Pete’s dragon …

Poacher by trade, McLeach specializes in rare exotic animals, and Marahute, the giant golden eagle, is certainly the rarest and most exotic creature he’s ever hunted. He just didn’t bargain on the pluck of a young outback boy and a couple of mice (!) determined to help the winged wonder and her precious nest of eggs.

Avarice is his middle name - all he wants is to find his own “gold of Cortez�? so he can prove himself in King James’ court, and if slaughtering savages and pillaging their land is what has to be done, then so be it. Of course, he leaves all the heavy lifting to his underlings - crick in the spine, you know.

A perfect example of the square-jawed “great white hunter�?, Clayton serves as the jungle guide to the Porter expedition in their quest for gorillas to study. But he has other ideas for the apes, far from scientific research, and he’s not going to allow some loin-clothed barbarian stand in his way.

Lust for treasure led Barbosa and his motley crew to a chest full of cursed gold doubloons, and in order to escape eternal walking death, they must retrieve every last coin, a task they’ll do anything - kidnap, ravage, they don’t give a hoot - to complete.