# The Supernaturalist

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- Book: [The Supernaturalist](https://www.bookquiver.com/eoin-colfer/the-supernaturalist) ([The Supernaturalist.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/eoin-colfer/the-supernaturalist.md))
- Authors: [Eoin Colfer](https://www.bookquiver.com/eoin-colfer)
- Publisher: Puffin
- ISBN: 978-01-4131-741-0
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2005-01-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill longs to escape from the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys. When a rare chance to get away comes, he grabs it, but the attempt goes fatally wrong. He can feel his life force ebbing away, sucked out of him by a strange blue Parasite ... until a wisecracking gang of kids burst in, blast the creature and save him. They are the Supernaturalists, dedicated to ridding the world of these life-sucking blue parasites. When they realise that Cosmo has the ability to see these blue creatures too, they enlist him as one of them. Their mission leads Cosmo into a world of high-level corruption, James Bond type technology, thrilling adventure and finally back to a place that Cosmo ever thought he'd have to return... the dreaded Clarissa Frayne.