(from
the 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.
Meg
is exactly what you are expecting it to be. A highly improbable plot where
a megalodon has survived and
is now terrorizing the oceans. You
have all the usual characters: the save the shark crew, the kill the shark
crew, the expert no one listens to until it’s too late. There aren’t too many surprises. You are not going to be blown away by
the great writing or intricate plotting. But if you are picking up the book in
the first place I don’t really think that’s what you’re looking for. It was what I was in the mood for at
the time so I enjoyed reading it. It
has the appropriate amount of people getting eaten, bloody scenes, people
getting in each other’s way and good plans going wrong along with some mayhem
and things exploding. There
were even some shark facts thrown in. And
a few people who you honestly didn’t know if they would get eaten or not. Good stuff. If you like that sort of thing.
