Our Lady of Holy Death — Gary Gibson

A prequel to Devil's Road:DEVIL'S ROAD: Broken out of jail by an insane oligarch, Dutch McGuire—getaway driver, carjacker and racing veteran—is tasked with one mission: investigate the mystery at the heart of an island inhabited only by huge, dinosaur-like kaiju. Only then can she win her freedom. But to do so, she must drive in the Devil's Run, an annual road race circumnavigating the island in which the racers are more likely to be murdered by each other as they are to be devoured by the kaiju. In this prequel, OUR LADY OF HOLY DEATH, Dutch must go to the rescue of an old friend and former devil's run veteran who has run afoul of a drug kingpin in South America - only to find herself trapped in a pit along with her friend and a kaiju egg the size of a car, which shows every sign of hatching... ...one of our best exponents of hardcore SF adventure - DAILY MAIL. To be considered alongside the leading triumvirate of British hard SF writers: Al Reynolds, Peter Hamilton, and Neal Asher. - THE GUARDIAN