Meg: Hell's Aquarium by Steve Alten is the fourth book in his Meg series.The Carcharodon megalodon, a prehistoric shark was discovered by a scientific expedition to the Mariana Trench, the deepest trench in the Pacific Ocean. A Meg was captured and brought to an aquarium in Monterrey, California. Now, more than twenty years later, the aquarium has 6 Megs! The adult female gave birth to a litter of 5.
As the aquarium does not have the space to house 6 giant sharks, Jonas Taylor has decided to sell a couple of the pups to other aquariums. With the deal to sell two pups to a new aquarium in Dubai, Jonas's son David will travel to the United Arab Emirates to oversee the settling of the young Megs.
David will also train submarine pilots to guide the two-person deep water subs that the Dubai aquarium's owner will send back to the area around the Mariana Trench - in an attempt to find other surviving prehistoric beasts to fill his 12 tanks.
Though David has promise his father that he will remain in Dubai, he finds himself lured to the under water expedition. What follows is a story of long extinct creatures in an environment man was never meant to enter.
Alten's series makes the movie Jaws feel like a cartoon. Fans of Shark Week will love these books!
Alten, Steve. (2009). Meg: Hell's Aquarium. New York: Tor.
