Indiana Jones-caliber exploits by members of the human cast tend to be the result, with a Moment of Awesome or Funny Moment, or both, often capping it all off at the finale. These books delight in taking their narrative about humans going up against giant sharks everywhere and anywhere they can think of, no matter how crazy, unrealistic, or controversial it may be. Terror, thrills, and more all ensue.Īnd we do mean ensue. Later, having become a marine biologist obsessed with proving he isn't crazy, Jonas ventures back into the trench, meets the shark again, and accidentally unleashes it. Jonas Taylor (and later, his family), a former member of the Navy who came face to face with the shark while diving in the Mariana Trench, reacted about the way you might expect, and was drummed out of the Navy for allegedly going insane. "Meg" is short for " Megalodon", the name of an actual giant prehistoric shark (although its size, strength, intelligence, and probably its ferocity are frequently exaggerated in the books that, and it glows.). The flagship series of novels by Florida author Steve Alten - except the "flagship" is actually a really, really big Threatening Shark.
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