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Mayan myth says that the world will end on the winter solstice in 2012. The fate of the world depends on one man, Michael Gabriel. Unfortunately for the world, Gabriel has spent the last decade locked up in a psychiatric hospital by a powerful, and vindictive enemy. It is up to Dominique Vasquez to free Gabriel so he can prevent the destruction of the world, though it is not until much later that they realize the price they will have to pay to do so.... Goliath (Thriller/Action)
Forge, July 2002, 25.95, 416 pp.
ISBN 0765303648
Using the most innovative mass destruction weapon ever created will enforce one man's vision of peace. Goliath is a stealth submarine, powered by an artificial intelligence computer called Sorceress. Originally American scientists conceived Goliath, but it was scrapped when a computer virus was introduced into its programming and the schematics disappeared. US Army Captain Gunnar Wolfe took the ... Goliath (Science Fiction)
The U.S. Navy designed Goliath, a futuristic nuclear stealth submarine the length of a football field in the shape of a giant stingray. But the plans were stolen. The Chinese built the sub covertly, only to have it hijacked by its creator, Simon Covah, a victim of Serbian terrorism who aims to use the sub and its nuclear weapons to dictate his own road map to peace.
But the sub's bio chemical computer is programmed with the capacity to learn, and i... Meg
In the book "MEG" Steve Alten tells us how many years ago, on a top secret scientific exploatory dive into the Pacific Ocean's deepest canyon, Jonas Taylor found himself face-to-face with an ancient monster too horrifying for his modern mind to contemplate. He was the sole survivor of the creature's wrath that day....
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Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror
Jonas Taylor, a paleontologist comes face to face with one of the ocean's most powerful predators, the megalodon and attempts to prevent it from sending humanity to the bottom of the food chain. In 1956, Jonas Taylor, a deep sea diver and marine biologist is working deep in the Mariana Trench with the United States Navy. His mission is top-secret and involves confirming the existence of an extinct species of shark known as the Megalodon which ruled the s... Meg: Hell's Aquarium
A aquatic crew must take care of a rare animal called a Megalodon, while dealing with the unpredictability of the animals. A group of people named Dani, Jonas, Terry and Mac work at an aquatic animal center. There is a rare animal called a Megalodon. The group has captured a Megalodon named Angel and are using it as their main attraction. Angel has given birth to five other Megalodons. One day while the group is feeding Angel, Angel goes crazy and begins... Meg: Primal Waters
Forge, Jul 2004, 24.95, 368 pp
ISBN: 0765308908
Now in his sixties, married to Terry and living in Tampa with her and their two teens, Jonas Taylor feels old and tired as financial sharks surround him demanding payments of past due bills. Jonas nostalgically thinks back to his glory days when he was in his mid forties and captured Angel the prehistoric Megalodon shark that terrorized the Mariana Trench. However, that was the highlight film of h... The Loch
A biologist who studies big animals must help his father fight a murder case, and his father claims that the killing was done by the Loch Ness Monster. A man named Zachary Wallace works in the field of animal science. Wallace hears that there are humongous squids in a certain sea. Wallace goes to see the big squids. Zachary embarks on the mission with a submarine.
While investigating the big squids, Wallace witnesses one of the big squids get killed b... The Trench
Jonas Taylor, paleontologist and deep sea diver is once again thrust into a new nightmare as a captured Megalodon known as Angel escapes the aquarium he works at and begins a new reign of terror. Jonas Taylor, paleontologist and former diver knows what horrors lie deep within the Mariana Trench. He continues to have nightmares about his encounter with the megalodon, an ancient shark that was thought to be extinct and murdered his wife as well as several ...
