Steve Alten

When the twenty-ton Megalodon shark escapes from the Monterey Aquarium, it embarks on a deadly feeding frenzy along the California coast and it is up to paleo-biologist Jonas Taylor to stop the shark before anyone else is killed.

Jonas Taylor's young son David is hired to be the handler of Megalodon pups--giant prehistoric sharks--that are to be kept in a specially commissioned aquarium in Dubai, but David agrees unaware that he will be leading the dangerous expedition to hunt and capture the creatures.