{"product_id":"makanda-jeffery-alvey-9798901742778","title":"Makanda","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the shadowed ravines of southern Illinois, something ancient has learned how to evolve again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen mutilated hikers begin turning up in Giant City State Park, crime scene investigator Janice Redfield suspects the truth is far worse than an animal attack. Decades earlier, locals whispered about the Big Muddy Monster-a towering nightmare blamed for a string of brutal deaths in 1973. Now the legend is waking up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn from a microscopic parasite older than history, the creature grows smarter and deadlier with every host it consumes-cricket, snake, deer, man-until it becomes a towering apex predator with a hunger for perfection. As blood floods forests, classrooms, and homes, science, obsession, and violence collide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMakanda\u003c\/em\u003e is a relentless descent into body horror, biological terror, and vivid brutality-where survival may demand the unthinkable, and mercy comes at the price of sanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeffery Alvey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798901742778\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Atmosphere Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.06d","brand":"Jeffery Alvey","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48801430896895,"sku":"9798901742778","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/makanda-jeffery-alvey-9798901742778","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}