MEG: A Novel of Deep Terror

by Steve Alten

Overview

MEG: A Novel of Deep Terror is the book that launched New York Times bestselling author Steve Alten's franchise and inspired an international blockbuster starring Jason Statham.

Seven years ago and seven miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, Dr. Jonas Taylor encountered something that changed the course of his life. Once a Navy deep-sea submersible pilot, now a marine paleontologist, Taylor is convinced that a remnant population of Carcharodon megalodon—prehistoric sharks growing up to 70 feet long, that subsisted on whales—lurks at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

Offered the opportunity to return to those crushing depths in search of the Megs, Taylor leaps at the chance...but his quest for scientific knowledge (and personal vindication) becomes a desperate fight for survival, when the most vicious predator the earth has ever known is freed to once again hunt the surface.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250764232
Publisher:	Tor Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/21/2022
Series:	Meg Series , #1
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	130,447
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Steve Alten is the best-selling author of the MEG series—which was the basis for the feature film The Meg, starring Jason Statham—The Domain Trilogy, and standalone supernatural thrillers such as The Omega Project and Goliath. A native of Philadelphia, he earned a Bachelor’s degree from Penn State, a Masters from the University of Delaware, and a Doctorate from Temple University. He is the founder and director of Adopt-An-Author, a free nationwide teen reading program used in thousands of secondary school classrooms across the country to excite reluctant readers.

Editorial Reviews

03/21/2022

This reissue of bestseller Alten’s 1997 Meg novel, the first in the series, shows how the original hasn’t aged well. Paleobiologist Jonas Taylor believes that Carcharodon megalodon, a gigantic ancestor of the great white shark, still exists. Seven years earlier, while piloting a Navy submersible in the Mariana Trench, Jonas thought he saw a “Meg” and, in his panic, rushed the sub to the surface, causing the death of two civilians aboard from “pressurization problems.” After spending three months in a mental hospital, he was dishonorably discharged from the Navy. When Jonas sees an image of a giant tooth embedded in another submersible too large for any known shark species, he joins a private expedition to investigate. Soon after it becomes clear that Megs have survived in an unusually warm area of the Mariana Trench, one manages to escape the depths and begin feasting on humans. Purple prose (“From the other side of the room, a pair of dark Asian eyes followed Jonas Taylor”) doesn’t help suspend disbelief or enhance engagement, and Alten favors gore over suspense. This monster movie in prose is no Jurassic Park. Agent: Danny Baror, Baror International. (May)

Publishers Weekly

With the storytelling sensibilities of Crichton and Cussler, Alten sure knows how to write a thriller.” —New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson

“Nobody writes weird science and believable monsters better than Steve Alten. Nobody. Be careful…this book will take a bite out of you.” —New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry

“Two words: Jurassic Shark.” —Los Angeles Times

“Hellishly riveting...an utterly amazing climax.” —Kirkus Reviews

“An adrenaline-pumping thriller...the perfect antidote to a sunny day at a crowded beach.” —New York Post

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