World War Z author Max Brooks’ Bigfoot book Devolution up for pre-order

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Seven years ago, it was announced that Lost / CHILD'S PLAY 3 director Jack Bender would be taking the helm of a movie titled DEVOLUTION, scripted by David Leslie Johnson (ORPHAN, THE CONJURING 2) and based on an idea by World War Z author Max Brooks. That project never made it into production, but Brooks is finally bringing his idea to the world.

On May 12, 2020, Del Rey will be published Brooks' new novel DEVOLUTION: A FIRST HAND ACCOUNT OF THE RAINIER SASQUATCH MASSACRE… Quite a long title, but worth it since it promises a "sasquatch massacre". Who doesn't want to hear about an event like that?

If reading about a sasquatch massacre sounds like your idea of entertainment, copies of the novel can now be pre-ordered on Amazon.

Here's the novel's description: 

The #1 bestselling author of World War Z takes on the Bigfoot legend with a tale that blurs the lines between human and beast — and asks what we are capable of in the face of the unimaginable.
 
As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined… until now.

But the journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing — and too earth-shattering in its implications — to be forgotten.
 
In these pages, Max Brooks brings Kate’s extraordinary account to light for the first time, faithfully reproducing her words alongside his own extensive investigations into the massacre and the legendary beasts behind it.
 
Kate’s is a tale of unexpected strength and resilience, of humanity’s defiance in the face of a terrible predator’s gaze, and inevitably, of savagery and death.
 
Yet it is also far more than that.
 
Because if what Kate Holland saw in those days is real, then we must accept the impossible. We must accept that the creature known as Bigfoot walks among us—and that it is a beast of terrible strength and ferocity.
 
Part survival narrative, part bloody horror tale, part scientific journey into the boundaries between truth and fiction, this is a Bigfoot story as only Max Brooks could chronicle it — and like none you’ve ever read before.

That sounds pretty cool to me. And now that the novel is being published, maybe a movie version will finally get made… Hopefully one that's more true to the source material than the WORLD WAR Z movie was.