Sharkman

by Steve Alten

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Pub Date Oct 07 2014 | Archive Date Oct 17 2014

Rowman & Littlefield | Taylor Trade Publishing

General Fiction (Adult) | Sci Fi & Fantasy

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, killing his mother and paralyzing him from the waist down.

After the accident his father, Admiral Douglas Wilson, sent him off to live with his maternal grandmother in South Florida. Kwan’s new principal, anticipating his depression and isolation, tells him about an internship at a genetics lab in Miami that’s testing shark stem cells on rats in an effort to cure cancer and repair spinal injuries. Kwan declines—until he learns the beautiful Anya Patel is an intern at the lab. The good news is that the stem cells are curing their rat subjects; the bad news is it alters their DNA so much it kills them. When a promising breakthrough is made, Kwan risks his life and injects himself with the experimental stem cells—altering his destiny and the lives of millions in the process.

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Advance Praise

Praise for Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror

An adrenaline-pumping thriller.
— New York Post

Jaws meets Jurassic Park. . . . Alten’s well-groomed story rockets like a . . . filmscript from event to event. . . . An utterly amazing climax . . . hellishly riveting.
— Kirkus Reviews

Praise for The Loch

With The Loch, Steve Alten combines meticulous research with riveting storytelling to craft a new genre—the historical science fiction thriller.
— Washington Daily News

The Loch is a compelling page-turner. I couldn’t put it down. Steve Alten has proven to be a literary master of the abyss.
— Owl Goingback, Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Crota

A fast-paced thriller . . . Alten gives a scientific twist to an old, enduring myth. . . . Michael Crichton meets Dan Brown beneath the waves of Loch Ness.
— Dennis Palumbo, author of Writing from the Inside Out

Praise for Domain

A chilling, deeply researched peek into our ancient past. Jarring, frightening, thrilling . . . What more could you ask?
— James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of Subterranean and Excavation

With the storytelling sensibilities of Crichton and Cussler, Alten sure knows how to write a thriller.
— Kevin J. Anderson, New York Times bestselling author