The Philippines, June 1991. Six American tourists have vanished on an island no one dares go near.
Kalumpang has been deserted since November 1985. That night, its last two hundred and thirty villagers fled by outrigger boat, leaving everything behind, and they never came back. On the neighboring islands, no one says its name anymore. They call it *Pulo ng Gutom*: the Island of Hunger.
When the missing tourists' sailboat is spotted at anchor, the Pentagon sends in ten Force Recon Marines, along with a Filipino intelligence officer who was born on the island. Their mission: find the tourists, figure out what happened, and get out. The ship that dropped them off will return in seven days.
On the very first morning, they find the tourists. Or what's left of them.
Out in the jungle, something is watching. Something that was once a man, that never sleeps, and that is hungry. As Mount Pinatubo awakens in the distance and a typhoon bears down on the islands, the Marines realize they are no longer investigators.
They are prey.
A relentless survival thriller that blends military action, Filipino folklore and pure terror, for readers who love open-air nightmares and monsters they'll never forget.
