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Loading... The Trench (1999)by Steve Alten
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Bigger then Jaws lived in a trench seven miles deep Good reading This book picks up a few years after The Meg. With characters we already met and a few we are introduced too and who I was annoyed AF with! Why is there always a...never mind, you’ll have to read it yourself. Jonas Taylor is still obsessed with the Megaladon, Angel who has been captured at the Tanaka lagoon for some time; but something is about to go down - he can feel it. Fast paced and excellent on the edge-of-seat scale! 📚📚📚 Oh, wow, what did I just read? Was this about a megashark or was it REALLY a discount-rate James Bond adventure under the sea? Hmmm. Not telling! *looks to either side, then up and to the left* Really! It's NOT just a discount-rate James Bond adventure with hokey science, stretchable wild situations, Russian femme fatales, or overblown (and frankly boring) manufactured pathos. Truly. Ah, well, my megashark has interesting competition/snacks. Am I talking about another Trench species, or am I talking about the poor peeps in the novel? I will leave you with that image. Giant sharks??? Here we go again!!! Professor Jonas Taylor is back, this time with Terry Taylor in tow. When Angel, a 70 foot long megalodon, escapes from her paddock at the institute Jonas must set sail on a sea voyage to recapture her. But there is great danger lurking in the depths. And Jonas's dreams are getting worse. Can he descend into the Mariana Trench once again to save the life of the woman he loves? Can he face his fears and worse can he face his demon... Angel? This book is written very much like the first novel. It is very action-packed with loads of suspense and thrills. Although there is a lot of action going on, there are also decent rest points so the reader does not become overwhelmed. I will say that halfway through this book I noticed that the death toll was already higher than the first book. Which is to be expected in a good sequel. Towards the latter half of the book there is a lot of scientific and technical jargon that is used. However it is not to the point where the layman cannot understand what is going on. The writer masterfully crafts his sentences so that any reader would be able to pick up this book and follow it. There were actually bits of espionage in this book. Which, in my personal opinion, I found to be unnecessary to assist in building the suspense leading to the climax of the ending.if the author had ended the book in a different way perhaps the espionage points would have been more relevant but in this case the author has written them as moot points in the story line. I honestly really like this book. I found the story very engaging and the characters very believable but that goes to having read the first book as well. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes horror, monsters and giant sharks! 🦈 no reviews | add a review
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Master of suspense Steve Alten always takes readers to the edge with his non-stop, adrenaline-charged novels. Now, in The Trench, Alten shows just how deep fear can run when you don't know what lurks beneath the surfaceâ?¦ Its appetite is ravenous. Its teeth, scalpel-sharp. For the first time, the captive twenty-ton Megalodon shark has tasted human blood, and it wants moreâ?¦ On the other side of the world, in the silent depths of the ocean, lies the Marianas Trench, where the Megalodon has spawned since the dawn of time. Paleobiologist Jonas Taylor once dared to enter this perilous cavern. He alone faced a Megalodon shark and cut its heart out. Now, as the body count rises and the horror of a monster's attack grips the California coast, Jonas must begin the hunt again, and return to the waking nightmare ofâ?¦ TH No library descriptions found.
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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