Go down a river of no return, toward a
fateful meeting with an animal that predates mankind’s
existence by ninety million years---after a treasure that
has captured man’s desires for centuries. This is what
Legends are made of. The year 1533:
Sent by Francisco Pizarro, Captain Hernando Padilla and
his small Spanish expedition found the legend that men had
only dared to whisper. In a lost valley deep in Brazil, he
discovered what had driven men of greatness into sheer
madness: El Dorado, the largest gold deposit in the world,
hidden away from the march of time, preserved as the
pristine Eden of wondrous sights and forgotten people.
But what he found wasn’t just gold.
Instead, Padilla and his crew awakened a devil hidden
in the lost valley, a beast of the Amazon who rises from
the mother of all waters to viciously kill any who
threaten the secret of the long-vanished Incas. But one
soldier survives the bloody savagery and, before dying,
shares his story with a lone priest in Peru. A secret the
Vatican quickly buried away. The Present:
Professor Helen Zachary is searching for a hidden legend,
buried deep within the Amazon Basin---a great beast who
has survived there since the dawn of time, a being ready
to plunge modern science into a world of darkness. And
into this darkness, Professor Zachary and her team
vanish. Now a letter from a colleague of Zachary’s
sends the Event Group, led by Major Jack Collins, chasing
down the professor’s lost expedition and into the
legendary darkness of the Amazon. Dedicated to discovering
the truth behind the myths and legends propagated
throughout world history, the Event Group---an agency
within the U.S. government that officially doesn’t exist---
ensures that mistakes from the past are never repeated.
They are a dedicated collection of the nation’s most
brilliant men and women of science, philosophy and the
military. Using cutting-edge technology
exclusively designed for the Event Group by the U.S.
military, they travel from Brazil to the Little Bighorn,
from Columbia to the hallowed grounds of Arlington
National Cemetery. As they do, the Event Group faces
mounting opposition from several different adversaries
bent on either discovering the whereabouts of El
Dorado . . . or trying to bury the legend
forever. Praise for
Event “Golemon puts his military experience
to good use in this promising debut sure to satisfy fans
of The X-Files . . . the plotting and hair’s-
breadth escapes evoke some of the early work of Preston
and Child, and the author's premise offers a rich lode of
materials for inevitable sequels.”---Publishers
Weekly "Imagine mixing in a blender a Tom
Clancy novel with the movie Predator and the
television series The X-Files. . . . Readers who
enjoy nonstop action and lots of flying bullets will enjoy
Golemon’s first book in a projected series.”---Library
Journal “The Roswell Incident--- whether legend,
fact, or some combination of both---has inspired countless
novels and movies over the years, but David Lynn Golemon’s
Event peels back the layers of Roswell with
refreshing originality. The action is spectacularly
cinematic, the characters compelling, and the story is a
flat-out adrenaline rush that pits real-world, cutting-
edge military technology against a literally out-of-this-
world threat. Even better, the Event Group itself is one
of the best fictional agencies to arise in the literature
of government conspiracies.”---New York Times
bestselling authors Judith and Garfield Reeves-
Stevens“Fans of UFO fiction will find this
a great read, and fans of military fiction won’t be
disappointed either.”---SFSIGNAL.COM