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REVIEW: Meg by Steve Alten

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Meg by Steve Alten Publishing information: Kindle Publisher: Gere Donovan Press; 2.2 edition 17 Aug 2011 ISBN: 978-1943957019 Series: Meg #1 Copy: out of pocket Reviewer: Tyson Amazon Synopsis: "REVISED EDITION! Updated by the author himself, and now including the full text of ORIGINS — the prequel to the MEG blockbuster novel. 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. When offered the opportunity to return to those crushing depths in search of the Megs, Taylor leaps at the chance… but the quest for scientific knowledge (and personal vindication) becomes a desperate fight for survival, when the most vicious predator that the...