Predator Stalking Shadows 40

"Later the "shoal" settled over Lau, who immediately began to writhe and scream.
But only for a moment. Because abruptly the "shoal" seemed to come together, to tighten around Lau, and then, incredibly and horribly, his squirming body simply burst apart, sliced and shredded into unrecognizable chunks of meat, as if attacked by frenzied piranhas."

"A net! he thought. It must have been a net! He knew, not only because Dutch himself had almost lost his life to one, but also because the Major had once given his team a lecture about the various weapons the Hunters were known to employ, one of the more specialized of which was a "net
gun," which fired a metallic net that settled over its victim and instantly began to contract. Presumably the net could contract slowly, bestowing a slow, drawn-out and painful demise on its target, or - as in this case - swiftly, resulting in a messy but instantaneous death."pg.310 chpt.11