A peek ahead at the next novel from T.C. Boyle?

The prolific and highly readable T.C. Boyle has a story, Los Gigantes, in the current New Yorker - he's published there quite often, and some of his stories, often collected in the Prize or Best American anthologies, have been very memorable and distinct, in his early years a lot of them about bedraggled East Coast heavy drinkers and misfits and in over the past 15-20 years or so more often about West Coast parrotheads and hangers-on - segments of American society not often chronicled in literary fiction. Boyle's novels range very far afield in theme - have read only a few of them but I know he's written about Alaskan settlers, patent-medicine pushers, Frank Lloyd Wright - anyway, I suspect current story is part of forthcoming novel as it had the feeling of an introductory chapter and did not have the well-crafted arc of narrative and precise ending that Boyle usually establishes: this story set in unnamed Latin American dictatorship where the President has hired or commandeered a band of giant men to mate with giant or super-strong women in hopes of siring a cadre of super-toughs to defend the regime (president had been a cattle breeder); story narrated by one of the giants, who tries to make an escape from the military outpost (which feels like a prison) where the giants are captive. Story obviously very far-fetched and owes some kind of debt to the great George Saunders, who has written many stories about people "captive" in various theme parks, and perhaps to Ishigura (and others?) who've written about breeding of humans for various purposes - none beneficent to the captives. This piece very readable and, though it doesn't stand up well as a story, suggests Boyle's next novel may be pretty good and, as is typical of his work, will go off and explore a completely new direction.