MEG

Primal Waters 18-C FD

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Steve Alten: MEG (Paperback, 2005, Forge Books)

Paperback, 480 pages

English language

Published May 15, 2005 by Forge Books.

ISBN:
978-0-7653-5240-8
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3 stars (4 reviews)

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 …

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3 stars

This was definitely an upgrade from the previous book, so I'm glad that I stuck with it. Some of the events were a little predictable but that's ok. It had much better pacing compared to The Trench which was surprising since there's more than one meg in this storyline.

Subjects

  • Thrillers
  • Fiction / Thrillers
  • Fiction - Espionage / Thriller