Lancer #1, Eugene Delacroix Old Masters Variant

New York Times best-selling writer Mike Costa and superstar-in-the-making, Jake Baker deliver a savage, all-too-plausible action thriller set in a near-future where side hustles have become a literal hunt for survival.

In the near future, if you need extra cash, you open an app. Accept a hunt. Get paid to exterminate whatever dangerous species is overrunning your part of the world. Coyotes in California. King cobras in Mumbai. Feral camels in Australia. Vampire bats in Brazil. If it threatens people, property, or profit, LANCER puts a bounty on its head.

For military vets like Pete Sanborn, it offers something modern life rarely does anymore: a mission, a paycheck, and the hope that one more job might finally be enough.

Two years after a wild hog hunt in Texas went catastrophically wrong, Sanborn has sworn he is done with the app.

Then an old military buddy shows up with an offer he can’t refuse.

Something enormous is living beneath New York City. The payout is life-changing. But the creatures below are not what anyone thinks they are, and by the time Sanborn understands what they are really hunting, it may already be too late.

Think Aliens, Predator, Jurassic Park, and RoboCop.

The Colonial Marines meet DoorDash.

Clock in. Hunt. Survive. Get paid.

It's a living.