Six days. Twelve men. One clearing in the Amazon that should not exist.

The Ranger battalion sent a Special Forces observer team into the Igarapé Tapuru basin to investigate a chemical anomaly the general refused to describe. What they found was a forty-meter platform of poured resin, drums of unknown chemistry, and a canopy that watched them back.

Captain Whitney Dunmire has her ODA, a sniper attached from a unit the Pentagon says he was thrown out of, an engineer sergeant with twenty years of buried expertise, an Air Force controller on his first Ranger perimeter, and a civilian guide who reads the forest for a living and refuses to carry a rifle.

The enemy has no thermal signature. The enemy has no radio. The enemy moves at contact distance and kills by reach and by who moves first.

By day six the doctrine will have to be written from scratch. By day seven the world will need to have believed her.

The Alien Drop 1 opens the four-volume series — a military technothriller of first contact fought with real weapons, real formations, and a jungle that does not care which side you are on.