Predator Novels

Posted by Darkness on December 10, 2006 (Updated: 24-Jan-2010)

Novels from the Predator Series. This section is sorted by most recent first down to oldest. You can view a larger image of a novel by clicking the relevant cover thumbnail.

	Title: Predator: South China Sea By: Jeff VanderMeer Publication Date: Aug 27, 2008 Description: On a remote South China Sea island, a deadly hunt is underway . . . but not the kind of expedition the participants expected. In this remote jungle-covered island somewhere between Thailand and Indonesia some of the most exotic animals in the world have been gathered as the prizes in a challenge of human against nature. The hunters come from all walks of life: a South African arms dealer, a Romanian ex-wrestler, two former KGB agents, a wildlife TV host, a Thai pirate, and John Gustat, a billionaire with a mysterious past. Each has come to the island for personal reasons, some secret, some deadly. But when the encampment’s owner, ex-Khmer Rouge Colonel Rath Preap, finds the fences cut and his security men missing, it’s clear that the game has turned. And as the hunters battle for survival, they discover there is another creature out for blood–a Predator with an unstoppable lust for conquest.

	Title: Predator: Turnabout By: Steve Perry Publication Date: Feb 27, 2008 Description: Deep in the Alaskan forest, ranger Sloan comes across the torn and bloody carcasses of Grizzly bears. Searching a human cause for the massacres, he discovers a team of poachers hunkered within the Alaska wilderness, waiting for the chance to score a big kill. He also finds evidence of the most fearsome killers in the universe: the Predators.

	Title: Predator: Flesh And Blood By: Michael Jan Friedman and Robert Greenberger Publication Date: Sep 19, 2007 Description: Humans have all but destroyed the Earth, creating an opportunity for unscrupulous moneymakers to take advantage of the destruction. One family, the Ciejek clan, have made their fortune exploiting Earth’s misfortunes. But with power comes corruption. The members of the Ciejek clan are at each other’s throats, enlisting the help of the fearsome Predators to settle the score… When the Predators arrive, however, the brutality the warriors unleash is far beyond what the Ciejek family could have imagined.

	Title: Predator: Forever Midnight By: John Shirley Publication Date: Apr 05, 2006 Description: The year is 2117, A.D. Humanity has seized the stars, using reverse-engineered alien technology to explore the far reaches of space. For a hundred years the Predators, sadistic extraterrestrial hunters, have been a dim memory. For a hundred years, we’ve been safe. That ends now. Cast in daylight for years at a time, the almost eternally lit jungle planet known as Midnight is the home to more than a thousand colonists, explorers building a haven on a new world. But the settlers aren’t alone. The Predators have been on this planet all along. When the ravenous creatures attack an arriving spacecraft and capture the settlers as both slaves and prey for their hunt, terraforming the planet takes a back seat to a new fight for survival.

	Title: Predator: Big Game By: Sandy Schofield (Adapter), John Arcudi Publication Date: Feb 2, 1999 Description: The Slayer and the Slain. A modern Navajo warrior follows the trail of his people’s most savage legend come to life. Deep in the rugged New Mexico desert, a strange aircraft has landed. In response, the commander of a nearby army base sends out search patrols. What he doesn’t know is that an alien Predator has arrived, hunting for human prey. But Corporal Enoch Nakai, a Navajo soldier, sees the creature in action – his buddy slaughtered in a blinding flash – before narrowly escaping with his life. For Nakai, it is a Navajo legend come back to life: the return of the Horned Monster, who was destroyed by the hero Nayenezgani, the mythical Monster Slayer. Shunned by his comrades, Nakai knows there is only one hope. He must rediscover his Navajo roots by following in the Monster Slayer’s footsteps. Using the wisdom of his ancestors, Nakai will confront the Predator in a final battle worthy of legend. But this time, will the hero emerge the victor?

	Title: Predator: Cold War By: Nathan Archer Publication Date: Mar 31, 1997 Description: Something has fallen from the sky over the Siberian wilderness and soon decapitated human bodies are littering the surrounding area. The Russian authorities are baffled, but deep within the Pentagon, someone knows that the Predators are back.

	Title: Predator: Concrete Jungle By: Nathan Archer (Adapter), Mark Verheiden (Original Story) Publication Date: Apr 1, 1995 Description: New York City’s Detective Schaefer has seen it all, from domestic murders to drug-gang executions. but Schaefer’s never seen the Big Apple awash in so much blood as tonight, with flayed bodies hung like meat being cured for mealtime. When Schaefer has a close encounter with one of the murderers, he realizes he’s run into something much bigger than the police suspect. Can even the toughtest cop stand up to the ultimate hunter?

	Title: Predator 2 By: Simon Hawke Original story: Jim Thomas, John Thomas Publication Date: Dec 1990 Description: As with the first movie’s novelisation, this novel also reveals some deeper information about the Predators. Certain events are portrayed from the Predator’s perspective, and references are also made to the Predators coming to Earth since the dawn of time to conduct the hunt.

	Title: Predator By: Paul Monette (Adapter) Original story: John C. Thomas, James E. Thomas Publication Date: Jun 1987 Description: This is the novelisation of the movie. Seemingly based on the original script and not the finished film, it goes into deeper detail of the Predator itself and gives more of an insight into the alien as a being.