Titanoboa: A Jungle Survival Thriller

by Eric S. Brown

A meteoroid carrying strange, radioactive alien properties crashes into the deep jungles of South America. Its potential is staggering — a discovery that could end the global energy crisis overnight.



Only a select few know it exists.



A covert team is assembled and sent to retrieve the object before the rest of the world learns the truth. But the jungle is no empty wasteland. It is ancient. Watching. And far more dangerous than they anticipated.



What begins as a mission to secure limitless power quickly spirals into a brutal fight for survival, as nature bares its fangs and something far older than humanity awakens in the dark.

108 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 2, 2026

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Reviews

[Andy Herzfeld · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a worse case scenario for a jungle safari. I knew none of these guys had a chance with Brown writing this I was just interested to see what would happen. The Jags, the Caimans, piranha's, before we really even meet the main characters. The meteorite is apparently in an area you can't just helicopter into because I thought that would be the best way. With no bird the only thing left is a jungle trek because no roads and oh yeah; cannibals are lurking in the shadows. They do actually find the weird space object in the middle of an ancient pyramid glowing weirdly and covered in squirming snakes by the thousands. The snakes come out and take out a few of the team until big daddy shows up. A true titan the size of a subway train, a hungry one, that moves like a speeding bullet. There actually are a couple of lucky survivors at least of this first book...

[Stephen Taylor · Rating 1 out of 5]

Five soldiers and five scientists head into the South American jungle to recover an asteroid with a mysterious energy source.

Wait - how did an astronomer detect an unknown form of energy when it was still in deep space?

And what with? The "Unknown Energy Detector"?

This is never answered!

The titanoboa itself barely appears in the story.

Recommended to read this as a comedy, because I can't imagine it was written to be serious!

Number of gratuitous penis injuries: THREE.