Previously, in BLACK DOOR: Captain Garrett, leading an as-yet unspecified special ops team, is called in by the Indianapolis Metro Police to help them with an animal control problem. The animal turns out to be a truck-sized lizatd with a lion's mane, six legs, and three prehensile tails…

The cops at the entrance had scattered. Two of them stood braced in the center of the street, their weapons pressed against their shoulders as they fired between the buildings. Something -- okay, the monster -- had crushed one of the police cars.

"Which way?" the chief called. His men glanced at him as if he were stupid, then continued firing up the street.

Cops ran up the road, shooing startled pedestrians and stopping every few seconds to fire their w...

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