'Carcharodon Megalodon – the largest and most fearsome predator to have ever existed on our planet. Rumors of its existence in our modern oceans have persisted for centuries. Now, in a new adventure, the rumors explode into brutal and terrifying reality in FATHOMLESS, by GREIG BECK.
'Baranof Island, Gulf of Alaska, 1952
'Jim Granger is searching for a place of legend. Known as ‘Bad Water’ by the island’s elders, it’s reputed to be home to many dangerous creatures. Through a seam in a cliff face, Jim finds what he seeks. He also finds, too late, that the water demon he was warned about is horrifyingly real.
'Today, Cate Granger is following in her grandfather’s footsteps. Along with a team of scientists and crew, she accidentally releases a creature from Earth’s primordial past into today’s oceans. The giant Megalodon shark follows its instinct and a genetic memory of a home that once existed millions of years ago along the Californian coast. Nothing is safe on or below the water as the monster stakes its claim on the world’s oceans.
'Now Cate and her team must do battle with a creature that has no rival, knows no fear, and regards humans as nothing more than prey.
'In FATHOMLESS, the greatest predator the world has ever known is coming home in 2016.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
'Cate Granger is chasing ghosts.
'The monster shark she once encountered was a remnant of the ancient world - one that had escaped an underwater lair previously sealed off for millions of years. At great cost, Cate and her allies had killed the beast.
'So, no more ghosts, no more shadows. All gone.
'Or so Cate thought.
'A research ship is sound-blasting the deep seabed looking for petroleum signatures. But in doing so they disturb something that has been hiding in the trenches for countless millennia.
'What Cate thought was dead rises from the cold depths of hell. She, Jack Monroe, a Russian billionaire and her team of marine biologists are forced once more to enter the abyssal zone of the deepest ocean trenches, to confront a creature from the Earth's distant past.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
'Monsters are real.
'Cate Granger and Jack Monroe are enjoying life far away from the deep-sea horrors of their past. But the ghosts still haunt them.
'Russian billionaire and former friend, Sonya Borashev, tells them of a newly discovered cave in Antarctica that leads deep beneath the frozen continent. It's from these icy depths that Sonya believes a remnant species of megalodon shark has been set loose. And that these ancient monsters are not only alive but thriving.
'With a recent spate of horrifying attacks, Sonya leads an expedition to put an end to the monsters for good. And she wants Cate and Jack with her - whether they like it or not.
'But beneath the dark ice, they uncover things even deadlier, even more dangerous, than they could have ever imagined.
'The final chilling book in the blockbuster Fathomless series delivers a terrifying roller-coaster ride of epic proportions.' (Publication summary)