Pred Description

Here's the description I sent in to the publisher at their request. It's devilishly hard to describe your own book, so I think they generally ask for this so they have something they can kind of knead and finesse and react to. So it's rough and kinda lame, but it does describe the novel. Really, somehow, the final description's gonna need to convey that I was trying to summon the essence of Sam Peckinpah and Joss Whedon while writing this. I'm sure Dark Horse will come up with something cool.JeffOn a remote South China Sea island, a hunt is underway...but not the hunt the participants expected. Ex-Khmer Rouge Colonel and lodge owner Rath Preap knows something odd is going on--security fences have been cut and big game animals run amok, surveillance cameras reduced to white snow, members of his small private army disappearing...Is it a demon or one of his own men?The hunters...John Gustat, billionaire entrepreneur, haunted by a secret and the owner of a mysterious black box. Nikolai and Marikova, supposedly part of the new class of wealthy Russian oil aristocracy, but a little too proficient with a knife and a sniper's rifle. A Romanian ex-professional wrestler turned mobster who knows Gustat is hiding something. A South African arm's dealer. A disgraced rock star who really doesn't want to be there. A Washington D.C. liquor baron. And a Thai pirate captain out to avenge the murder of her sister...Full-on battles in old temple ruins. Deadly African crocodiles. A secret Thai military base. A strange alien virus. Double crosses and last stands. Love and death in the tropics.Something is beginning to hunt the hunters. Something that has endured a thousand battles on a hundred worlds. Something entirely too familiar to the mysterious John Gustat...This time, it's personal. [Like, all the other times, it was "just business" - Jeff]