Shark! Shark! Everybody get out of the water!

Hurricane Deckard sweeps through the small coastal town of Merit bringing with it all kinds of sea life including an enormous shark. Not just any shark, but a Thresher shark. Normally a Thresher shark is not big, but this one is four times bigger than a great white shark. The Thresher decides that it wants to stay in the area so it starts setting its territorial mark off the coast of Merit and it starts defending the area by killing off anything that comes into its territory including any and all sea life, plus human lives as well.

There is a great group of characters in this book, including Officer Leonard Riker and his trainee, Allison Metzler, Chief Crawford, and two marine biologists, Dr. Stafford and Robert Nash. Each character has problems and issues of their own along with trying to deal with the invasion of the shark into their town.

The story is fast paced and just flows along to the point where it feels as if you are experiencing the terror too!

I was very impressed by the detailed research the author went through to describe everything related to sharks, especially the Thresher. I do not know much about sharks, so I had never heard of a Thresher before this book, so I looked it up as I wanted to see what the shark really looked like and the Threasher looks wicked as it has a long tail which they use for whipping their prey paralyzing them before it moves in for the kill.

There is lots of suspense, action, chaos, blood, and gore throughout the book!

It kept me up the last few nights till the early hours of the morning as I couldn't hardly put the book down. Giving this one five stars.

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