About the Author

STEVE ALTEN is the New York Times and International bestselling author of more than a dozen novels, including the MEG series about Carcharodon Megalodon, the seventy-foot, 100,000 pound prehistoric cousin of the Great White shark. His work has been published in more than 30 countries and is being used in thousands of middle and high school curriculum as part of Adopt-An-Author, a free teen reading program, which he founded with teachers back in 1999.