With no other survivors to confirm his discovery, Taylor was labeled a crackpot and a coward. In a state of shock, Taylor surfaced too quickly and barely survived a severe battle with the bends. On a top secret dive into the ocean’s deepest canyon, Taylor found himself face to face with a shark so large that its ten foot jaws would have snapped his sub in two.

Professor Jonas Taylor, paleontologist and former deep sea submersible pilot, has spent years lecturing and writing about Meg, trying to forget the unforgettable mission that convinced him of this monster’s existence. In that lightless, hellish abyss, the most fearsome phylum imaginable has survived for 100 million years: Megalodon, sixty foot, twenty ton progenitors of today’s Great White sharks. Seven miles beneath an isolated section of the Pacific Ocean, where hydrothermal vents called black smokers spew 700 degree mineral rich steam into the sea, a prehistoric predator thrives. Incorporating the latest research and ‘new evidence,’ that leads to real answers concerning the monster’s identity, best selling author Steve Alten weaves a tale of horror about the most publicized and controversial creature ever to exist. Only Zachary can prove his innocence if he is innocent, but to do so means confronting the nightmare that nearly killed him seventeen years earlier. Until he receives contact from his estranged father…Ī man he has not seen since his parents’ divorced and he left Scotland as a boy.Īngus Wallace, a wily Highlander who never worked an honest day in his life, is on trial for murdering his business partner. Unable to cope, his career all but over, he stumbles down a path of self destruction… Haunted by vivid night terrors, stricken by a sudden fear of the water, Zach finds he can no longer function as a scientist. Now, a near death experience suffered while on expedition in the Sargasso Sea has caused these long forgotten memories to re surface. Does a monster inhabit its depths, or is it just myth? Why, after thousands of reported sightings and dozens of expeditions, is there still no hard evidence? Marine biologist Zachery Wallace knows, but the shock of his near drowning as a child on Loch Ness have buried all memories of the incident.

Loch Ness holds secrets, ancient and deadly.

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