BURIED LEDE

They told him the story was fiction. The river told him otherwise.

Eighteen months after the disaster at FOB Sentry, journalist Ivan Gomez is a broken man. His eyewitness account of bioengineered dinosaurs and a rogue military program was published, classified, and buried. The Pentagon called it fiction. His career was called over.

Then the Mekong River starts going dark.

Villages disappearing. Fishing boats vanishing. Indigenous communities reporting creatures in the water that match the things Ivan saw at Sentry-except the scale is wrong. Too many. Too spread. Too far.

Ivan discovers the terrifying truth: the dinosaurs at Sentry weren't the beginning. A decade earlier, a secret precursor program released forty-eight specimens into the rivers of Laos. Those specimens weren't contained. They bred. They spread. And ten years of uncontrolled breeding in tropical jungle has produced something the original program never intended-berserker populations that don't hunt to eat. They hunt to kill.

Now the creatures are migrating south through the Mekong basin. Through the Tonle Sap, the largest lake in Southeast Asia. Past the floating villages. Past the fishing communities. Toward Angkor Wat, where twelve thousand tourists walk the ancient corridors every morning.

With the help of Ariana, the indigenous tracker who saved his life at Sentry, a young Army specialist risking his career for the truth, and a Cambodian tuk-tuk driver who knows every hidden tunnel in the temple complex, Ivan must expose a conspiracy that goes all the way to the Pentagon-before the creatures reach a city of a quarter million people.

The cover-up dies on live television. The question is how many people die with it.

BURIED LEDE is the explosive sequel to LAST DISPATCH. A creature-horror thriller about engineered dinosaurs, institutional cover-ups, and what happens when the things we bury refuse to stay underground.