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 & I guarantee you'll be putting it down breathless & stunned as dawn is breaking the next day' Daily Express