Steve Alten
1) Sharkman
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Formats
Description
Kwan Wilson was a high school basketball star living in San Diego when a tragic accident changed his life in ways no one could predict. He only looked at his phone for a few seconds, but that was all the time it took to crash his car into a telephone pole, the impact killing his mother while severing his spinal cord and paralyzing him from the waist down.
After the accident his father, Admiral Douglas Wilson, sends him away to live with his maternal...
After the accident his father, Admiral Douglas Wilson, sends him away to live with his maternal...
2) The Loch
Author
Series
Loch novels (Steve Alten) volume 1
Description
When a near-death experience forces memories Zachary Wallace buried after a near-drowning as a child to surface, he realizes he holds the key to unlocking the mystery of the Loch Ness monster, but as his memories drive him to madness, he searches for anything that can help him reclaim his life and career.
3) The trench
Author
Series
Megalodon series volume 2
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
A giant shark escapes from a California aquarium, creating havoc before heading to sea. As he probes the ocean depths in pursuit, biologist Jonas Taylor stumbles on a terrorist nuclear arms factory.
Author
Series
Megalodon series volume 1
Description
A prehistoric shark surfaces off California and proceeds to wreak havoc. Sixty feet long, it is a member of a species living in the ocean depths for the last 100,000 years. Jonas Taylor, a paleontologist and deep-sea submariner, tries to capture it for an aquarium.
5) Vostok
Author
Series
Loch novels (Steve Alten) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
East Antarctica: The coldest, most desolate location on Earth. Two-and-a-half miles below the ice cap is Vostok, a six thousand square mile liquid lake, over a thousand feet deep, left untouched for more than 15 million years. Now, marine biologist Zachary Wallace and two other scientists aboard a submersible tethered to a laser will journey 13,000 feet beneath the ice into this unexplored realm to discover Mesozoic life forms long believed extinct...
Author
Series
Megalodon series volume 4
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
David Taylor, the twenty-one-year-old son of Jonas Taylor, agrees to escort two of Angel's litter to Dubai, where a royal prince is building the largest aquarium in the world, unaware that he is being set up to lead an expedition into the dangerous Panthalassa ocean hidden beneath the Philippine Sea Plate.
Author
Series
Megalodon series volume 3
Description
Eighteen years have passed since Angel, the prehistoric Carcharodon megalodon shark, broke free of the Tanaka Lagoon and returned to the depths of the Mariana Trench. Meanwhile, Jonas Taylor, the famed adventurer who captured the Meg shark, has become Jonas Taylor, middle-aged father of two, overwhelmed by mountains of bills and the daily strife of raising a family. But his life is about to change.
8) Undisclosed
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
A veteran of the Iraq war is appointed undersecretary of defense in order to penetrate a secret government purposely black-shelving zero-point energy, a clean, abundant energy source reverse-engineered from downed UFOs. Are extraterrestrials and UFOs real? Are there secret subterranean military bases hiding advanced technologies that date back to the incident at Roswell? Is there a "false flag" in the works intended to wipe out billions? Steve Alten's...
9) Goliath
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Commander Rochelle "Rocky" Jackson is aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan when the "unsinkable" naval vessel and its entire fleet are attacked from the depths and sunk. As Rocky struggles to stay alive, a monstrous mechanical steel stingray surfaces, plowing through the seas it now commands. A U.S. Navy-designed futuristic nuclear stealth submarine the length of a football field in the shape of a giant stingray. Simon Covah, a brilliant...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Patrick "Shep" Shepherd was a promising major league rookie baseball pitcher when September 11th, 2001, hit. Shaken by the attacks, Shep left behind his soul mate and newborn daughter to enlist in the Armed Forces. Eleven years and four deployments later, Shep finds himself in Manhattan's VA hospital. His left arm is gone, his wife and daughter are gone, and he is haunted by the nightmares of war.
11) Domain
Author
Series
Domain trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Description
As the winter solstice of 2012 approaches (the day of reckoning prophesied by the myths of the Kukulcan Pyramid at Chichen Itza), Mick enlists Dominique in his effort to save mankind from the apocalypse. Engineering his escape from the hospital, she accompanies him on a desperate search to find his way into the pyramid before the radio message from space, which has already activated a deadly alien weapon buried deep in the Gulf of Mexico, can open...
14) Meg: Generations
Author
Series
Meg volume 6
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
GENERATIONS opens where NIGHTSTALKERS left off. The Liopleurodon offspring has been moved to a holding tank aboard the Dubai-Land transport ship, Tonga for its journey to the Middle East. While the Crown Prince’s investors gawk at the creature, below deck in the tanker’s hold, another captured beast is awakened from its drug-induced state and goes on a rampage. The vessel sinks, the Lio escapes… and three distinct plots emerge to be woven together...
15) The meg
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
A deep-sea submersible filled with an international research crew lies disabled at the bottom of the Pacific after having been attacked by a massive shark previously thought to be extinct. With time running out, expert deep sea rescue diver Jonas Taylor is recruited by a visionary Chinese oceanographer to save the crew and the ocean itself from this unstoppable threat that is a pre-historic 75-foot-long shark known as the Megalodon.