{"product_id":"buried-lede-nora-penn-9798180653413","title":"Buried Lede: A Creature Horror Thriller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThey told him the story was fiction. The river told him otherwise.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEighteen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the Mekong River starts going dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVillages 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIvan 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cover-up dies on live television. The question is how many people die with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBURIED 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.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nora Penn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798180653413\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Nora Penn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173577400575,"sku":"9798180653413","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d6e012d3-cdf9-4e83-acda-f12f4804a300.jpg?v=1788955314","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/buried-lede-nora-penn-9798180653413","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}