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Meg

Meg

by Steve Alten

1997FictionSharksCarcharocles megalodonReality television programsDeep diving
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From the moment the early morning for had begun to lift, they sensed they were being watched. The herd of Shantungosaurus had been grazing along the misty shoreline all morning.

About this book

From book jacket: On a top-secret dive into the Pacific Ocean's deepest canyon, Jonas Taylor found himself face-to-face with the largest and most ferocious predator in the history of the animal kingdom. The sole survivor of the mission, Taylor is haunted by what he's sure he saw but still can't prove exists--Carcharodon megalodon, the massive mother of the great white shark. The average prehistoric Meg weighs in at twenty tons and could tear apart a Tyrannosaurus rex in seconds. Written off as a crackpot suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Taylor refuses to forget the depths that nearly cost him his life. With a Ph.D. in paleontology under his belt, Taylor spends years theorizing, lecturing, and writing about the possibility that Meg still feeds at the deepest levels of the sea. But it takes an old friend in need to get him to return to the water, and a hotshot female submarine pilot to dare him back into a high-tech miniature sub. Diving deeper than he ever has before, Taylor will face terror like he's never imagined, and what he finds could turn the tides bloody red until the end of time.

Themes & subjects

FictionSharksCarcharocles megalodonReality television programsDeep divingAmerican Suspense fiction
First published 1997

Setting

Pacific Ocean

Author

Steve Alten

First published

1997

Pages

361

Read time

≈ 9h

Editions

12

Language

English

Publisher

Forge Books

ISBN

9780765352408

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