Meg: Hell's Aquarium (62 page)

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Authors: Steve Alten

Tags: #Thrillers, #Suspense, #Espionage, #Fiction

Lizzy charges along the surface, baiting the bull.

The big male soars past the female orca to confront the albino—

—as Belle launches her attack from below. Cruising vertically at twenty knots, the lead-backed sister strikes the orca between its flippers, lifting the bull clear out of the water, its serrated teeth tearing open the male’s tender belly!

Lizzy moves in quickly, gnawing off the killer whale’s dorsal fin in one horrific bite.

The rest of the pod quickly alters its course as the two Megs slaughter their leader.

No other creatures approach the sisters’ kill. None will challenge their rule; the Strait of Juan de Fuca now belongs to
Carcharodon megalodon
. It is in these waters that Belle and Lizzy will birth their young, the pups protected from their parents within the rocky alcoves and shallows until the day that they, too, become sizable juveniles. Forced to territorialize other bodies of water, these young females will eventually beget their own kind, their internal fertilization defying extinction—Mother Nature setting a different course for her apex predator.

THE ANGEL OF DEATH IS DEAD—

—LONG LIVE HER QUEENS.

The Taylors will return in
MEG: Night Stalkers.

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www.SteveAlten.com
for previews.

Table of Contents

Cover

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Part 1

Chapter 1.

Chapter 2.

Chapter 3.

Chapter 4.

Chapter 5.

Chapter 6.

Chapter 7.

Chapter 8.

Chapter 9.

Chapter 10.

Chapter 11.

Chapter 12.

Chapter 13.

Chapter 14.

Chapter 15.

Chapter 16.

Chapter 17.

Chapter 18.

Chapter 19.

Chapter 20.

Chapter 21.

Part 2

Chapter 22.

Chapter 23.

Chapter 24.

Chapter 25.

Chapter 26.

Chapter 27.

Chapter 28.

Chapter 29.

Chapter 30.

Chapter 31.

Chapter 32.

Chapter 33.

Chapter 34.

Chapter 35.

Chapter 36.

Chapter 37.

Chapter 38.

Chapter 39.

Epilogue

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