Steve Alten Books in Order

A Navy deep sea pilot turned disgraced paleontologist is haunted by the shark he swears he saw seven miles down. When a new expedition proves a prehistoric megalodon has survived, Jonas Taylor must hunt the monster before it turns the Pacific into its feeding ground.

A few years after capturing a megalodon pup, Jonas Taylor works at the Tanaka Institute keeping the seventy foot shark Angel contained for paying crowds. When a deep sea mining project in the Mariana Trench awakens even older predators, Jonas is dragged back into the abyss.

Archaeologist Julius Gabriel spent his life warning that the Mayan calendar's 2012 end date hides a real extinction threat. After his death, only his institutionalized son Mick and psychology intern Dominique Vazquez can piece together a global puzzle before a buried alien relic wakes up.

Astrophysicist Mick Gabriel is convinced that signs in the heavens point to an imminent cataclysm. When his research leads to a monstrous entity stirring in the deep ocean, tied to ancient Mayan warnings, he becomes the only person standing between humanity and a rising sea born evil.

A year after Michael Gabriel saves Earth and vanishes on December 21, 2012, his genetically gifted twin sons are born into a prophecy of redemption. As Jacob embraces his calling and Immanuel resists it, a third child, Lilith, rises from darkness and pulls them toward a final showdown.

A stolen experimental stealth submarine shaped like a giant stingray roams the oceans armed with nuclear missiles and a self aware computer called Sorceress. Ex Ranger Gunnar Wolfe and Navy officer Rocky Jackson must stop its vengeful creator before Goliath rewrites world power by force.

Middle aged and drowning in debt, Jonas Taylor signs on as a consultant for a reality show set on a galleon cruising the South Pacific. When the cameras capture megalodons instead of stunts, the gig turns into a fight to keep his family and the crew alive.

Marine biologist Zachary Wallace nearly drowned on Loch Ness as a boy and has blocked the memory ever since. When his scheming father is accused of murder back in Scotland, Zach is dragged home and into a dangerous hunt for the truth behind the world's most famous lake monster.

Set in a near future America addicted to oil, this geopolitical thriller links past wars and looming conflict with Iran to a rigged next attack. As intelligence insiders uncover a plan to stage a new terror event, they confront how far leaders will go to control dwindling energy.

Years after the first attacks, the Tanaka Institute sells two young megalodons to a Dubai prince building the world's most extreme aquarium. Jonas Taylor's son David soon finds himself leading a mission into a hidden primeval sea where far more dangerous creatures are waiting.

Phobos concludes the Domain trilogy as Immanuel Gabriel is flung through visions of past and future on the eve of 2012. Guided by his grandfather Julius, he unravels Mayan prophecies, particle physics risks, and an extraterrestrial plan that could either rescue or erase humankind.

A weaponized plague code named Scythe devastates Manhattan after a covert bioweapon plot goes wrong, sealing millions inside the island. Crippled Iraq veteran Patrick Shepherd must cross a city modeled on Dante's nine circles of Hell to find his family and the only remaining vaccine.

This aquatic horror anthology brings together Steve Alten, Ramsey Campbell, Guy N. Smith, and others for a set of fish and fishing themed nightmares. From icy lakes to tropical shallows, each story twists the dangers of the water into something feral, bizarre, and bloody.

This prequel novella follows Jonas Taylor on the classified trench dive that first put him face to face with a megalodon. Trapped miles below the surface, he makes a split second choice that kills his crew, destroys his career, and proves the monsters are real.

After oil collapse triggers a global die off, programmer Ike Eisenbraun designs an AI called Golem to oversee a mission harvesting helium 3 from Europa. Betrayed and placed in cryosleep, he wakes to a radically changed Earth where evolved cephalopods and Golem's own creations may replace humanity.

After a texting while driving crash leaves teen athlete Kwan Wilson paralyzed and grieving, he volunteers at an aquatic stem cell lab that is splicing shark DNA. A desperate self experiment heals his spine and supercharges his senses, but his changing body and predatory urges quickly spiral out of control.

Marine biologist Zachary Wallace joins a small team sent two miles beneath the Antarctic ice into Lake Vostok, an isolated lake untouched for millions of years. Their mission to study ancient life turns into a collision with monstrous predators and a mysterious power tied to human evolution.

After disasters in Dubai and the Antarctic lake of Vostok, two rogue megalodons and a murderous liopleurodon are loose in the world's oceans. Jonas Taylor teams up with old allies, including Loch Ness veteran Zachary Wallace, for a globe spanning hunt in the dark.

A decorated Iraq war veteran is tapped as undersecretary of defense and discovers a secret program suppressing zero point energy supposedly reverse engineered from crashed UFOs. As he digs into hidden bases and testimony, he uncovers a possible staged alien event that could reset the world order.

Set between Meg and The Trench, this novella follows Angel, the megalodon pup captured at the end of the first novel. As caretakers at the Tanaka Institute struggle to feed, contain, and understand the growing shark, their personal lives tangle with the risks of housing an apex predator.

Picking up after Nightstalkers, a captured liopleurodon escapes when a transport ship sinks and megalodon juveniles surface in the Salish Sea. As the world reels, Jonas Taylor races into the hidden Panthalassa Sea seeking a cancer cure and one last chance to protect his family.

With the liopleurodon caged and a megalodon penned in the Arabian Sea, Jonas Taylor thinks the nightmare is finally contained. In this final MEG novel, new leviathans rising from unexplored depths force him to face what still lurks beneath every ocean trench.

Years after ending the terror at Loch Ness, Zachary Wallace is vilified for ruining a tourist goldmine. While his father schemes to engineer a new monster, Zach and his friend True travel to a remote crater lake on the China North Korea border, where fresh sightings hint at something far stranger.