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Steve Alten is the best-selling author of the Meg series, including Meg: Hell's Aquarium. 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.

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"An exuberant, potboiling action thriller. The shark attack scenes . . . are numerous and exciting. Fans should devour it." --Publishers Weekly on MEG: Primal Waters "Two Words: Jurassic Shark!" --Los Angeles Times on Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror "Nonstop excitement." --Library Journal on Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror "An adrenaline-pumping thriller!" --New York Post on Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror "Hellishly riveting . . . an utterly amazing climax." --Kirkus Reviews on Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror "A heart-stopping thriller." --Ingram on The Trench "An entertaining tale of gripping nonstop horror." --Midwest Book Review on The Trench "A fast-paced thriller with many plot twists." --Booklist on The Trench "Alten can write a mean prehistoric shark scene." --Publishers Weekly on The Trench

"An exuberant, potboiling action thriller. The shark attack scenes . . . are numerous and exciting. Fans should devour it." --Publishers Weekly on MEG: Primal Waters "Two Words: Jurassic Shark!" --Los Angeles Times on Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror "Nonstop excitement." --Library Journal on Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror "An adrenaline-pumping thriller!" --New York Post on Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror "Hellishly riveting . . . an utterly amazing climax." --Kirkus Reviews on Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror "A heart-stopping thriller." --Ingram on The Trench "An entertaining tale of gripping nonstop horror." --Midwest Book Review on The Trench "A fast-paced thriller with many plot twists." --Booklist on The Trench "Alten can write a mean prehistoric shark scene." --Publishers Weekly on The Trench

The giant prehistoric shark, carcharadon Megalodon, that put Alten on bestseller lists with his debut novel, Meg (1997), and its follow-up, The Trench, returns in a messy, exuberant, potboiling action thriller. It's 18 years since Angel, spawn of the "meg" in Meg, chomped her way through many humans (as well as through most critics' sensibilities); her nemesis, Jonas Taylor, is now 63-and in financial trouble. For money and perhaps a retaste of youth, Jonas agrees to star in a top-rated reality series, Daredevils, unaware that a meg-lover who's envious of Jonas's fame plans to feed Jonas to a meg lured to the middle of the ocean. Meanwhile, Angel returns to her California hunting grounds and another meg creates havoc on the coast of Washington State. The narrative runs in overdrive from start to finish, as Alten munches on the reality show phenomenon, ocean ecology and family issues (tensions among Jonas, his kids and his wife), but all those are merely the fibers connecting the novel's powerful muscle: the shark attack scenes, which are numerous and exciting and, toward the end, intercut as frantically as an MTV video. This title probably won't sell as well as Alten's first two Meg novels, but the novelty of an aging action hero adds general interest, and the author's many devoted fans should devour it. Agent, Ken Atchity. (July) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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