Author(s): Peter Benchley

Fiction

It was just another day in the life of a small Atlantic resort until the terror from the deep came to prey on unwary holiday makers. The first sign of trouble -- a warning of what was to come -- took the form of a young woman's body, or what was left of it, washed up on the long, white stretch of beach ...A summer of terror has begun. Peter Benchley's JAWS first appeared in 1974. It has sold over twenty million copies around the world, creating a legend that refuses to die -- it's never safe to go back in the water ...'Pick up Jaws before midnight, read the first five pages, and I guarantee you'll be putting it down breathless and stunned, as dawn is breaking the next day' Daily Express