Rob Smythe: 5 books

Lost In The Badlands is the first of the three part series The Badlands Saga, an adventure story for middle grade readers. Laura, 14, and her brother Mike, 12, are walking in the Badlands of South Dakota when a mysterious time-storm sweeps them 12,000 years into the past, a time when the Badlands...

Trapped In The Badlands is the second of the three part series The Badlands Saga, an adventure story for middle grade readers. Laura, 14, and her brother Mike, 12, have chosen to stay 12,000 years in the past to defend a Stone Age family against two evil archaeologists who are trying to retrieve a...

Home In The Badlands is the third of the three part series The Badlands Saga, an adventure story for middle grade readers. Laura, 14, and her brother Mike, 12, are trapped in the Stone Age, living with a cave-dwelling family. Life is harsh and food is scarce. Stranded with them is the dizzy...

Sam Hunter, an agent of the shadowy company Strategic International Recovery Services, helps his brother Daniel, chief historian for the Mormon Church, unearth the Golden Plates, a book with pages of gold believed to contain The Book of Mormon. Church authorities are overjoyed, until they discover...

Sam Hunter, an agent for a private company that performs risky, covert tasks in the world’s hotspots, is hired to obtain a mysterious artifact from a mountain village in Pakistan’s Northern Areas. The object, one of three so-called Rods of Santur, has great mystical and medicinal value to the...