The hold was purposely kept dark in order to accommodate the eyes of the nocturnal species they had been hunting over the past year, the only light coming from strings of Christmas decorations wrapped around the walkway’s guardrails. The twenty-six-year-old marine biologist stood dead center of the catwalk, a narrow expanse of grated steel connecting the two walkways anchored along the port and starboard bulkheads. The size of the tank was a necessity―the species targeted for capture were among the largest and most dangerous life-forms ever to have existed on the planet. The Tonga and her sister ship, the Mogamigawa, no longer transported crude, their enormous holds having been scrubbed and refitted with seawater pens by their new owner―a Dubai crown prince―to stock Dubai-Land, his ambitious prehistoric aquarium theme park in the United Arab Emirates.

Jacqueline Buchwald adjusted the hood of her parka over her shoulder-length, strawberry-blond hair, the air temperature inside the bowels of the Malacca-class oil tanker kept at a brisk 42 degrees Fahrenheit. And so it took refuge in the shallows in a semiconscious stupor, its blowhole remaining free of the water.

Nor was there a memory of how the bull had come to be in this unrecognizable sea. A simple clickety-click and the silver-gray behemoth immediately recognized its territory, be it the subglacial lake in Antarctica where its kind had survived for eons, the shallows where its harem of cows had birthed their calves, or the now-accessible depths of the Southern Ocean where the dominant male had, up until recently, foraged for food. Please enjoy the following excerpt.Īboard the Tonga Tanaka Oceanographic Instituteįor the entirety of its adult existence it had been the master of its domain―a domain defined by sound. MEG: Generations will be available on July 21, 2020. No both ancient creatures, older than mankind itself, are loose in the waters of the Arabian Sea, and the region will never be the same. The megalodon shark that Jonas Taylor worked so hard to capture is coming out of it’s drug-induced stupor and refuses to be contained.

But while investors gawk at the prehistoric creature, any even more dangerous creature is beginning to stir. The transport vessel Tonga is carrying a liopleurodon to the City of Gold. In MEG: Generations, Steve Alten New York Times bestselling author continues his terrifying series.ĭUBAI: An impossibility is being taken to the Middle East.

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