A young couple go to Bermuda on their honeymoon. They dive on the reefs offshore, looking for the wreck of a sunken ship. What they find lures them into a strange and increasingly terrifying encounter with past and present, a struggle for salvage and survival along the floor of the sea, in the deep.

Celebrating its 50th anniversary with 20 million copies sold, Peter Benchley's Jaws is the gripping pulp thriller that inspired Steven Spielberg's classic, blockbuster film adaptation.**Now, with exclusive bonus content from Peter's personal archives and an exclusive foreword from his wife, renowned ocean conservation advocate Wendy Benchley.It's never safe to go back in the water . . .**It was just another day in the life of a sma...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The shark-versus-man classic that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg movie—now in a fiftieth anniversary edition with an exclusive foreword from the author’s wife, renowned ocean conservation advocate Wendy Benchley“A tightly written, tautly paced study of terror.”—The Washington Post**A great white shark terrorizes the beautiful summer getaway of Amity Island, and a motley group of men take to the water to do battle wi...

"Makes the shark from "Jaws" look like a pet goldfish . . ." USA WeekendStraight from the cutting edge of science and the logs of ancient mariners comes an immense horror -- a creature that rises up from the well of an ocean gone mad with an insatiable hunger and an endless lust to kill. One man leads a harrowing struggle to defeat the beast amid a threatened Bermuda paradise. His name is Whip Darling, a down-and-out sea dog who doesn't know where he'll get his next meal -- or wheth...

Het was een dag zoals alle andere in de levens van de inwoners van Amity, een klein plaatsje aan de Atlantische kust. Maar vanuit de diepte van de oceaan richt een onzichtbare dreiging zich op de nietsvermoedende vakantiegangers. Het eerste teken aan de wand, een waarschuwing voor wat hen te wachten staat, is het lichaam van een jonge vrouw – of wat er nog van over is – dat aanspoelt op het lange, witte strand. De zomer van de haai is begonnen...

Edizione 50° anniversario20 milioni di copie vendute, per mesi in cima alle classifiche di tutto il mondo, il romanzo che ha ispirato il film capolavoro di Steven Spielberg: Lo squalo è tornato.Una notte d’estate sulla spiaggia di Amity, Long Island, una donna si tuffa in acqua per una nuotata. La mattina seguente, il suo cadavere viene ritrovato poco lontano, orrendamente mutilato. L’assassino è una spaventosa creatura degli abiss...

Une nuit, le corps mutilé d’une jeune femme s’échoue sur la côte d’Amity, petite cité balnéaire du Massachusetts.Martin Brody, le chef de la police, en est convaincu : un requin rôde dans les parages. Et maintenant qu’il a goûté à la chair humaine, il ne s’arrêtera plus. L’accès aux plages doit être interdit, mais le maire et une partie de la population s’y opposent. En pleine saison estivale, c’est l’économie de la ville qui en dépend.Lorsque deux nouveaux...

Peter Benchley’s fascination with the sea and its magnificent inhabitants inspired such classic novels as Jaws and The Deep, making him the preeminent author of ocean adventure and suspense. The Girl of the Sea of Cortez was his most heartfelt, cherished story of the relationship between man and the sea, both those that live in it and those who love it.On an island in the Gulf of California, an intrepid young woman named Paloma c...

With the 1974 publication of the novel Jaws and the release a year later of the film based on the book, an American cultural phenomenon was born. Today, the remarkable bestseller by Peter Benchley still towers as a thrilling classic of suspense, drama, and the eternal conflicts of man against nature … and man against himself.As the movie continues to broadcast all over the world, entire generations may know the Jaws story only through its cinematic rendition. Thos...

A young couple go to Bermuda on their honeymoon. They dive on the reefs offshore, looking for the wreck of a sunken ship. What they find lures them into a strange and increasingly terrifying encounter with past and present, a struggle for salvage and survival along the floor of the sea—in the deep.

Sur une île de la mer de Cortez, au Mexique, la jeune Paloma a hérité de son père, pêcheur disparu dans une tempête, une compréhension profonde et intuitive de l’océan.Solitaire et anticonformiste, elle s’évade dès qu’elle le peut à bord de son petit esquif, savourant un sentiment de liberté rare et précieux. Elle jette l’ancre dans un endroit, connu d’elle seule, où prospère une fascinante biodiversité.Lors d’une de ses plongées, Paloma fait une rencontre ...

**En av 1900-talets stora populärkulturella klassiker i ny utgåva»En tät, rysningsframkallande studie i skräck« The Washington Post**En helt vanlig morgon spolas vad som finns kvar av Chrissie Watkins kropp upp på badorten Amitys vita sanddyner. Hon har dödats av en massiv vithaj. Polischefen Martin Brody vill få badstränderna stängda, men krassa affärsmän - liksom borgmästaren Larry Vaughn - kräver att saken tystas ner.Så skördar hajen ytterligare människoliv, bland...