Within a labyrinth of caves in a small Texas town on the Rio Grande, among walls adorned with ancient Indian petroglyphs, lies a pool of strange, luminescent water...Twenty years ago, an anthropologist unknowingly unleashed an otherworldly force of a malevolent nature here. Three teenagers spent time in the caves, unaware of the entity that inhabited them. Now they're drawn back to the site to confront not only their pasts, but one another--as combatants in a supernatural war flowing across the globe through the raging currents of the world's rivers...
"Based on actual government programs, Jeffrey Mariotte's River Runs Red is a fascinating blend of espionage and the occult with several jaw-dropping plot twists and one of the best action sequences I've read in a long time." -- David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author of The Brotherhood Of The Rose and Creepers
"Mariotte can flat out write. This is a smart, fast, terrific read. This river runs." -- Don Winslow, author of The Winter Of Frankie Machine and The Dawn Patrol
Jeffrey J. Mariotte is the award-winning author of more than 30 novels, including Missing White Girl, The Slab, and the teen horror quartet Witch Season, as well as numerous comic books. He is a co-owner of specialty Bookstore Mysterious Galaxy, and lives on the Flying M ranch in rural Arizona.
