Bamboo Dragon

A veteran prospector, Terrence Hopper, returns from a Malaysian expedition delirious and later dies, reporting that a creature destroyed his party. CURE director Harold W. Smith sends Remo to join a Museum of Natural History expedition seeking the reported Nagaq under a fabricated herpetologist identity; Smith suspects uranium may also be involved. After Remo survives an attack arranged by Kuala Lumpur enforcer Sing Hop Ma, the expedition travels to Tasek Bera with paleobotanist Audrey Moreland, mercenary Pike Chalmers, Malaysian deputy Sibu Sandakan, and guide Kuching Kangar. Remo and his group face an attack by a Chinese-led guerrilla force seeking information from an unidentified contact. During the raid, Audrey disappears in the surrounding quicksand and Remo presumes her dead; he pursues and kills the raiders’ leader after learning the information was meant for Beijing.

The surviving team continues and Kangar reveals himself as a member of a hidden tribe, bringing them to its jade-built City. Audrey reappears, admits that she is the Chinese contact and says she was paid to help locate uranium using a silent Geiger-counter watch. Remo enters the City and finds the glowing fountain causes the watch to spike; he infers that uranium in the water caused the tribe’s deformities. During a ceremony for the tribe’s Nagaq, Remo rescues the captives as a living dinosaur enters the temple. Stockwell identifies it as a ceratosaurus. Chalmers flees, later attempts to attack Nagaq with a spear, and is then killed by the dinosaur.

Nagaq also kills Chiun’s elephant and escapes wounded from the City. Audrey is fatally speared by a tribesman; Remo kills the attacker and ends Audrey’s pain. Remo and Chiun leave with Stockwell and Sandakan. In New York, Smith says Malaysia has claimed the uranium and plans to contain Stockwell’s account; Remo reports that Malaysian commandos destroyed the tribe and the dinosaur escaped, an operation not shown directly. The dinosaur’s later fate and whether more exist remain unknown.