It's never safe to go back in the water. Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary with 20 million copies sold, Peter Benchley's Jaws is the gripping pulp thriller that inspired Steven Spielberg's classic, blockbuster film adaptation.
It was just another day in the life of a small Atlantic resort until the terror from the deep came to prey on unwary holidaymakers. 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 . . .
'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
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781035048861
Number of pages: 368
Weight: 254 g
Dimensions: 197 x 131 x 23 mm
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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
A tightly written, tautly paced study of terror [that] makes us tingle - The Washington Post
Powerful . . . [Benchley’s] story grabs you at once. - The New York Times Book Review
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