Still, Jaws fans will have fun.Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror is a 1997 science fiction horror novel by American author Steve Alten.
Alten continues to be less than careful about scientific details (centipedes aren't insects) and usage (the liopleurodon at one point sweeps prey into its "vacuous gullet"). One creature, a liopleurodon, has eaten the love interest of one of the main characters, David Taylor, whose quest for revenge is aided by an attractive female marine biologist who was once a professional dancer. Alten tosses in a menagerie of monstrous relics, including a ferocious sperm whale and multiple dinosaur-era aquatic reptiles.
But Bela and Lizzy aren't the only underwater threats to humanity. The culprit is a Carcharodon megalodon, a gigantic ancestor of the great white shark, and one of a pair named Bela and Lizzy, who were freed from an aquarium by animal rights activists.
Steve Alten weaves these storylines together in a page-turning thriller that culminates in a final showdown between the most dangerous predators ever to inhabit the planet.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.Īlten's fifth Meg novel (after 2009's Meg: Hell's Aquarium) demonstrates the limits of centering a series on surviving prehistoric sharks devouring human victims, the first of whom is chomped in half while kayaking in the Strait of Juan de Fuca off British Columbia. Haunted by night terrors, David repeatedly risks his life to lure the Lio and other prehistoric sea creatures into the fleet's nets, while battling his own suicidal demons. Having witnessed his girlfriend's gruesome death, David has joined a Dubai Prince's ocean expedition, tracking the 120-foot, hundred-ton Liopleurodon that escaped from the Panthalassa Sea. While Jonas Taylor and his friend Mac attempt to either recapture or kill the "sisters," Jonas's son, David, embarks on his own adventure, motivated by revenge. In this fifth installment of Steve Alten's New York Times bestselling MEG series-the basis for the feature film The Meg, starring Jason Statham as Jonas Taylor- Nighstalkers picks up where MEG: Hell's Aquarium left off.īela and Lizzy, the dominant Megalodon siblings from Angel's brood, have escaped the Tanaka Institute to roam the Salish Sea in British Columbia.
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