Legend: An Event Group Thriller

By David L. Golemon

Book Overview

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312352638
• ISBN13: 9780312352639
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.7" x 1.3" x 6.2"

Customer Reviews

Great read!

Ended up staying up way to late, just to finish, couldn't put it down! Very exciting and lots of twists and turns.

Excellent Fun

A very fun and entertaining adventure. I rate Goleman right up there with Cussler and DuBrul.

Not Just a Legend this Event

Legend, the second installment of the Event Group series is in many ways very different than the first book. The first installment is very fast paced, lots of snappy dialog, the action non-stop, and it is one hell of a rollercoaster ride. Also, EVENT scared the bejeezus out of me. The style of writing in book one is just different than this book. Not worse, just not the same. Golemon switches writing gears and pens this book in a more literary style. I thought this one was just a bit long and drawn out but it pays off at the end. The reader must have a bit of patience and give the author their trust. The first half of the book is a slow build, a warm up approach that in my opinion does take too long, Also, there are way too many characters bouncing all over the place too fast like Mexican Jumping Beans. The reader feels like a ping pong ball ricocheting hither and yon, finding it hard to keep track of who is who and what their part was. In book one there is more character development to set up the main key players. You dont see that here. This book falls under the assumption that you already know who they are and why they do what they do. So I dont think you could really read Legend, without reading Event first, or you'd be floundering a bit as to what is going on and why the Group does what they do. But even though this needed a tad bit of editing, and although there were too many characters and one too many side plots, the author does manage to weave this convoluted story into one heck of great story. He pulls all the threads together very nicely so that when you are done, you are happier than you were during the first half of the story. One thing that I thought was better in this installment was that the action scenes were more believable, not so over-the-top James Bond-like. I have to admit on a whole, looking at the big picture, Event was better for me. It was more exciting and had you on the edge of your seat, and as I said earlier, it was much scarier. When reading Event, I could barely breathe. Legend is still excellent, it just holds a steadier pace and maintains about the same level of thrill and intrique from start to finish. I was not scared at all in this book. Golemon is creative, and he is a good writer, one worth watching in the future. The literary writing style in this book was better I think, and the scare factor was better in book one. So I loved them both for different reasons and would highly recommend them both. I just ordered book three and can not wait to dive in. This is fun stuff for sure, a sort of blending of Robert Doherty's Area 51 series and the television show Stargate SG1. Pure entertainment at it's best!

LEGEND is a bigger EVENT!

After reading David Lynn Golemon's terrific debut novel titled - EVENT - his follow-up novel - LEGEND - is even better! Now, only after 2 novels, David Lynn Golemon has already reached top-mark status with his compadres in this genre, such as James Rollins and Matthew Reilly and Preston and Child. And after finishing this awesome new novel, we'd venture to say even better than the latter two authors. LEGEND is a scary and creepy,(something that is hard to make me feel out of a novel), fast-paced and adventerous, utilizing many facets from high-tech weapons and boats and such utilizing the latest scientific principles that all come together that give a legendary reading experience. With fantastic character-driven prose, and legendary locales and a myriad of horrific creatures that will surely give you the creeps, this latest novel is way better than Golemon's debut novel. If you love larger-than-life adventures, filled with interesting characters of all kinds, as well as exotic locales and creatures out of myth and legend and beyond, then this top-notch novel is for you. David Lynn Golemon launches himself into the Best-Selling stratosphere after this one, and has now definately become one of our favorite and must read authors from now on. We are really looking forward to this extremely talented writers' thrilling next work in the secret and covert group called - The Event Group.

Fantastic book

This is a great book. I could not put it down! I can not wait for the next event book. You will love the event group and be cheering them along.