Into the Mist by Lee Murray

Into the Mist by Lee Murray

Dinosaurs, or something very like them, are coming to New Zealand. Deep in a national park, people have been disappearing and the government unofficially looks into the problem by sending some special defense force soldiers to escort some civilians looking to track down a new gold deposit. The civilians are part of a plot to seed the area with gold to create the excuse for largescale exploration on native land, but the dinosaur has its own plan.

 

This book is a lot of fun. The bad guys are bad enough for the reader to cheer for their demise and the good guys are likable enough you want them to survive. The monster does a particularly good job of being, well, monstrous and creepy as well as appropriately terrifying. I’m not certain that it is realistic for something the size of a T-Rex to sneak silently through the forest, but it certainly gets the blood pumping when the heroes turn around and it’s there.

 

My favorite part of the novel, however, was the attempts to connect the T-Rex to native legends to see if the soldiers could figure out a way to kill it that didn’t involve their low caliber guns.

 

A good tale.