Bad to the Bone

By: John Lahm

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

★★★★★ "A great summer beach read!" - Reader Review
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A bloodbath of a science fiction novel about genetically modified sharks, unidentifiable victims, and a government trying to cover it all up. Could this actually happen? Or has it already?

That’s the question you will be left to ponder as you read this science fiction novel with historical references about the unexpected arrival of a new species of shark that developed due to human medical waste seeping down through the Florida aquifer and coming out in offshore submarine springs.

As such, this new breed of shark uniquely craves human blood and bone marrow due to DNA changes from ingesting medical byproducts over decades.

When full-grown a member of this new species is the largest individual predator on earth. The story centers around the Kings Bay Nuclear Submarine Base in St. Marys, Georgia.

Under the backdrop of the construction of the base that took place in the late 1970s, sudden brutal shark attacks began occurring.

The attacks were so brutal, that the victim’s bodies if located, were stripped of all flesh and blood products down to the pulverizing of the victim’s bones to get to the marrow!

Meanwhile, many black, tannin-stained teeth are found washing up on nearby beaches.

The Navy decides to remove a limestone mound found during a dredging operation and inadvertently releases a school of young predators from their birthplace in the submarine springs into Kings Bay.

Here they escape into the coastal waters and start to raise havoc with local fishermen and beachgoers.

Later the Navy uses one of the most famous spy ships in the world, the Glomar Explorer, to lift the 100-ton mound and the mystery underneath.

Everything is labeled secret by the Navy, so news of the new species is hushed as the Navy tries to avoid a public relations nightmare.

Who knows? Maybe they did cover it all up... See for yourself, by ordering your copy of Bad to the Bone, and join the feeding frenzy today!

Lacked luster

This could've been great. There were so many parts that drug on and I couldn't connect with the characters. By the end, I wanted Chamberlain to be eaten. He had a girlfriend who broke up with him but all of a sudden dates and loves someone? and I understand sharks will eat whales and baby creatures but to have the mother who just gave birth killed and all this other stuff, I could've done without. Not enough people attacks lol. and the one guy from the beginning getting killed was sad. Not to mention the mayor and the coverup. all that stuff was never brought up very much after the Set up. it was such a choppy book.

The virtual narration was wonderful in my opinion