Shane Black’s The Predator isn’t releasing in theaters until September 14, but you won’t have to wait quite that long for a brand new story in the franchise. And that’s because author James A. Moore’s The Predator: Hunters and Hunted will arrive right around two months prior, a new book that serves as the official prequel to the movie!

The official prequel leading directly into The Predator, Hunters and Hunted is set to introduce key concepts that then will explode onto the screen in the movie…

“For centuries Earth has been visited by warlike creatures that stalk mankind’s finest warriors. Their goals unknown, these deadly hunters kill their prey and depart as invisibly as they arrived, leaving no trace other than a trail of bodies.

When Roger Elliott faced such a creature during the Vietnam War, he didn’t expect to survive. Nor did he expect that, decades later, he would train the Reavers, a clandestine strike force attached to Project Stargazer. Their mission: to capture one of the creatures, thus proving its existence, disassembling its tech, and balancing the odds between the hunters and hunted.”

The Predator: Hunters and Hunted will release on July 31.