Master of suspense Steve Alten always takes readers to the edge with his non-stop, adrenaline-charged novels. Now, in The Trench, Alten shows just how deep fear can run when you don't know what lurks beneath the surface… Its appetite is ravenous. Its teeth, scalpel-sharp. For the first time, the captive twenty-ton Megalodon shark has tasted human blood, and it wants more… On the other side of the world, in the silent depths of the ocean, lies...

A shark, still in his egg case, sets out to determine what kind of shark he is.

Marco the shark is scared to go to the dentist, but his tooth will not stop hurting.

Smiley Shark's toothy smile frightens the other sea animals but comes in handy when they are caught in a net.

Hot Wheels race cars attempt to escape from a shark attack.

Bobby wants a shark for his birthday, so he is disappointed when his parents get him a puppy instead--but this puppy turns out to be a bit of a shark herself.

Although his friends want to ignore the new striped fish in their midst, Regenbogenfisch must decide whether to help him when a shark attacks.

On the first day of vacation thirteen-year-old Davey Tsering wakes up early, slips out of his family's hotel room without telling anyone, and heads for the beach and a swim in the warm Floridian waters--and a fateful meeting with a shark.

Whoever loses the most shark teeth in Harry Hammer's class will get to go on the new ride at Dregoland before anyone else.